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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem

Despair in Gaza as Israeli aid blockade creates crisis ‘unmatched in severity’

Food is distributed to Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, last week
Food is distributed to Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, last week. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Gaza has been pushed to new depths of despair, civilians, medics and humanitarian workers say, by the unprecedented seven-week-long Israeli military blockade that has cut off all aid to the strip.

The siege has left the Palestinian territory facing conditions unmatched in severity since the beginning of the war as residents grapple with sweeping new evacuation orders, the renewed bombing of civilian infrastructure such as hospitals, and the exhaustion of food, fuel for generators and medical supplies.

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