Every morning, Niyaha al-Masri leaves her tent in Khan Younis and joins a queue outside a community kitchen, hoping hours of waiting will yield a single meal for her family of 10. It is a familiar scene across the Gaza Strip, where the specter of famine still looms more than a year after a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was supposed to open the way for food into the devastated territory.
Without the kitchens run by humanitarian groups, al-Masri said, her family would have "nothing at all." On a recent day, after six hours in line, she returned in the afternoon with four meal boxes containing rice, lentils and a small portion of chicken — the only food her family ate that day.
The scene reflects the severe hunger gripping Gaza, where more than 1.4 million people face acute food insecurity. Humanitarian aid remains insufficient to cover basic needs, leaving the lives of many Palestinians there still defined by hunger and seemingly endless queues.
