Gaza food kitchens still missing essential products despite ceasefire

Israel is allowing more food into Gaza, but aid workers say vital ingredients needed to improve people's diets are still missing.

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Cooks add canned tomatoes and peppers with handfuls of spices, stirring the sauce with giant spoons.

What is being prepared here is not just lunch, it is a lifeline.

American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera) opened this community kitchen in al-Zawayda in central Gaza after the ceasefire began six weeks ago.

The US humanitarian organisation has another kitchen in al-Mawasi in the south of the strip, which the BBC visited in early May.