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No functioning bakeries in central Gaza: WFP

27 November 2024 17:53 GMT

The UN's World Food Programme has announced that no bakeries remain operational in central Gaza. 

According to the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, as of 25 November, only four out of 19 bakeries supported by WFP remained operational across Gaza, and all of them were in the Gaza governorate, which spans the lowermost portion of northern Gaza as well as parts of central Gaza.

The WFP said these bakeries resumed production at 50 percent capacity after receiving a limited amount of fuel delivered from southern Gaza.

In Deir al Balah and Khan Younis in the south, all eight bakeries are closed due to lack of flour "while partners are prioritizing household-level distribution with the limited amount of flour received," WFP said.