Children lining up for free meals at a charity kitchen in Gaza City. — SAHER ALGHORRA/The New York Times
FOR Abdelhalim Awad, who runs a bakery in the central Gaza Strip, the hope of food arriving for hungry Palestinians was like the endless reports of an approaching ceasefire: constantly rumoured to be just around the corner yet always out of reach.
Weeks after Israel announced that it would ease its blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza, little of the desperately needed food, fuel, and medicine has reached hungry Palestinians.
