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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Wafaa Shurafa

Leading aid group shuts down its soup kitchens across Gaza over Israel's blockade

Israel Palestinians - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Israel’s ongoing blockade of humanitarian assistance for Gaza forced a leading aid group on Thursday to shut its community soup kitchens, faced empty warehouses and no replenishment of supplies in the war-battered enclave.

World Central Kitchen was serving 133,000 meals per day and baking 80,000 loaves of bread over the past weeks, but said it was forced to suspend operations since there is almost no food left in Gaza for the organization to cook.

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