In the southern town of Khan Younis, workers bake through the night to feed vast queues of people in besieged territory
People wait in line outside a bakery to buy bread in the centre of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 27th. Photograph: Samar Abu Elouf/The New York Timesbombardment, the bakery in the town of Khan Younis can produce only a single basic item: thin flatbread loaves for which thousands of people queue for hours every day.
“The situation is difficult and dangerous, but we feel compelled to keep going for the sake of the people,” he said. His 15 workers were terrified when the building next door was hit. “Some of them left. I can’t stop them,” he added. Families are going hungry, according to UN officials, after Israel banned the entry of fuel and goods, including food, into the aid-dependent territory. Since October 21st, Israel has allowed a trickle of humanitarian supplies to reach Gaza via the territory’s sole crossing with Egypt, but UN officials have described the quantities arriving as “crumbs” compared with the needs of the 2.3 million Palestinians in the strip.
At the Rustom Bakery, the flour and fuel are provided by Unrwa free of charge. Workers begin sifting the flour at 10pm and bake through the night to produce 2,000 packets of the flatbread, each containing 50 loaves. He missed three days of work under pressure from his mother, whose fears “soared when she heard news of bakeries hit in the bombardment”.
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