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Hunger grips Gaza, with more than 1.4 million people acutely short of food as aid remains insufficient to meet basic needs.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoNiyaha al-Masri, a 35-year-old displaced Palestinian woman from Beit Hanoon, waiting to receive food for her family at a charity kitchen in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. [Bashar Taleb/AP Photo]By AFPPublished On 12 Oct 202612 Oct 2026Every morning, Palestinian mother Niyaha al‑Masri leaves her tent in Khan Younis and joins a long line outside a community kitchen, hoping that hours of waiting will end with a single meal for her family of 10.
More than a year after a “ceasefire” between Hamas and Israel was supposed to open the way for food into the devastated enclave, hunger still defines daily life for many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Without the kitchen run by humanitarian groups, al-Masri says, her family will have “nothing at all”. On a recent day, after six hours in the queue, she returned in the afternoon carrying four containers of rice, lentils and a small portion of chicken – the only meal the family would have that day.
