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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Wafaa Shurafa and Sam Mednick

UN agency closes the rest of its Gaza bakeries as food supplies dwindle under Israeli blockade

APTOPIX Israel Palestinians Eid al-Fitr - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The U.N. food agency is closing all of its bakeries in the Gaza Strip, officials said Tuesday, as food supplies dwindle after Israel sealed the territory off from all imports nearly a month ago.

Israel, which tightened its blockade and later resumed its offensive in order to pressure Hamas into accepting changes to their ceasefire agreement, said that enough food entered Gaza during the six-week truce to sustain the territory's roughly 2 million Palestinians.

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