Gaza desperately needs more aid but agencies can’t cope - BBC News

Paul Adams examines why agencies are unable to get desperately needed aid into the Gaza Strip.

5 days agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warBy Paul AdamsBBC NewsThe images have been searing. Children scrabbling in the dirt, gathering handfuls of spilled flour which they stuff into their pockets.

Aid trucks surrounded by angry mobs of mostly young men, who attack the drivers and make off with whatever they can carry.

And young Maryam Abed-Rabu, trying but ultimately failing to stay composed as she answered a journalist's questions about the daily struggle to stay alive.

A girl who has already been through so much, including the loss of her father, wailing at her inability simply to find bread.

Northern Gaza is almost entirely cut off from the outside world. The population, estimated at around 300,000 people, reduced to a feral existence in a world where shops barely exist and aid never arrives.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68380776

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