Food prices soar in Gaza as total aid blockade enters eighth week, warns ActionAid – Middle East Monitor

Food prices in Gaza have surged to catastrophic levels amid a continued total blockade on humanitarian aid, reported ActionAid.

For more than eight weeks, Israeli Occupation authorities have prevented food, medicine and other essentials from entering the Territory, triggering severe shortages and forcing families into deepening hunger and deprivation.

According to ActionAid staff and local partners, staple items such as meat, eggs, dairy and fruit have vanished…