Hunger and malnutrition stalk Gazans, one year on from ceasefire

Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – Every day, Gazan mother Niyaha al-Masri spends six exhausting hours or more queueing at a community kitchen in the hope of getting some food for her family. It has been a year since a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was supposed to allow food to flood into the ruined territory, yet widespread hunger persists there. Without the kitchen run by humanitarian groups, she and her eight children would have “nothing at all,” the 35-year-old said.