There’s bread, but hunger persists

Asmaa making her way back to her shelter after buying bread from the Al-Sharq bakery.

ASMAA al-Belbasi walks an hour to her nearest bakery each day to fetch bread for her children and other relatives in the north Gaza districts, where aid agencies say famine still looms despite rising supplies.

The route can be dangerous, along streets strewn with rubble from blown-up buildings that are impassable to cars and with fighting between Hamas resistance fighters and Israeli forces still sporadically raging.