One day after Israel began to stop all the goods and humanitarian aid into Gaza belt, the Palestinians already feel the effects of the measure, with the prices of essential goods to increase.
“It was a complete shock,” said Iman Saber, a 24-year-old nurse from the northern Gaza, about Israel’s decision on Sunday to block help and commercial shipments.
Already, said Mrs. Saber, who lives in a tent with her father, a cancer patient, and her mother and sister, prices of sugar, oil and chicken have increased, and hopes that have been raised by a reception fire between Israel and Hamas have proven to be fast.
“We couldn’t wait for the stores to be opened again and appreciated to feel a relief,” Mrs. Saber said in a telephone conversation. “But now everything gets expensive again.”
Israelites stop the goods and helpIncluding the fuel, he was focused on the pressure on the Hamas to accept his new proposal for extending the appearance, which stopped the war in Gaza after 15 months of struggle and has since expired. A few hours before the closing of the border was announced, Israel suggested a seven -week extension during which Hamas would have to release half of the remaining hostages seized during October 7, 2023, an attack on Israel that went to war.
The renewed blockade of help influenced not only humanitarian aid, which is distributed for free, but also commercial goods, and the effect on the price in the devastated enclave was almost immediate, Gazani said. The ban on the shipment came as many Fighting to observe The Holy Moon of Ramadan, usually a festive time of fasting and worship.
“We were able to breathe a little and feel some hope again,” Mrs. Saber said. “But now we feel depressed again,” she said.
The United Nations and several help groups sounded an alarm over the decision of Israel to block delivery delivery.
“Humanitarian aid is not a negotiating chip for the implementation of the parties,” the Oxfam group states in a statement, calling the decision of Israel a “reckless act of a collective penalty, explicitly forbidden in international humanitarian law.”
Doctors without borders too, declared that “humanitarian aid should never be used as a war. “Doing that, it is said,” will have devastating consequences “in Gaza, where he” created uncertainty and fear, causing food prices to be pointed. “
Tom Fletcher, the Secretary General of the UN for humanitarian affairs, condemned the action of Israel. “The international humanitarian law is clear: we need to be allowed to access vital rescue assistance,” he said on Sunday. And Hamas himself denied the Israeli move as “blackmail.”
Israeli officials said that the Government believed that the help and goods that had entered Gaza in recent months, and during the interruption of the fire meant that there were enough supplies for a few more months.
However, in Israel, five non -profit organizations filed a proposal to the High Court of Justice, which required a temporary order that forbidden the government to reduce the supply of assistance in Gaza. Gishha, a human rights group that leads the proposal, claimed that stopping providing assistance was illegal, even if, as Israel claims, there is already enough help.
Even if food is available, it may now be even more out of reach for many gazans.
“There were six sugar pounds yesterday, but now, after Netanyahu said he wouldn’t let anything go in, his price had already grown to 10 Shekel,” said one 30-year-old Palestinian, Amani Aata, who is from Beit Hanoun, in northern Gazi.
And that’s not just sugar, Mrs. Aata said in a voice message on Sunday. “Everything will become expensive again,” she said.
Abdulrahman Mohammed, a 35-year-old father of a four-year-old from the City of Gaza, said the prices of fruits and vegetables are also on the rise, with a pound of tomato with eight to 20 shekels.
Mr. Mohammed said that some traders and traders also deliberately rejected the goods from the market to later sell themselves at inflated prices, worsening the financial burden of Gazan.
On Monday, the Ministry of the Interior Gazana invited people to apply for increasing prices in markets and stores, as well as any traders who seemed to try to convert the situation into their advantage. A day earlier, the Ministry said it would need “strict measures against everyone who raises the price.”
Police forces also deployed to markets throughout the territory “to monitor the availability of basic goods at their current prices,” the Ministry said.
The help of help followed after a dramatic rush in the humanitarian supplies that entered Gaza during the first phase of the appearance, which temporarily facilitated the enclave in the midst of warning of overblown hunger.
When the fights were ongoing, less than 100 trucks The day was entering the enclave, and even these deliveries were suspended. Aid agencies accused Israel of excessively limiting delivery of strict inspections and closing border crossings. Israel rejected that claim.
Ameer Haroud Contributing reporting from Doha, Qatar.
