NHK finds aid not reaching all residents in Gaza
Humanitarian aid deliveries by truck and airdrop have continued during this period, but NHK has found that sufficient supplies are not reaching all residents in the enclave.
More than 200 truckloads of supplies have reportedly been delivered each day. NHK's Gaza-based crew saw more street stalls and shoppers in central Gaza's Nuseirat on July 30 compared with about three weeks ago on July 11.
Some vendors were selling beans from the same bags in which they had been delivered as aid supplies.
One vendor said much of the beans and rice he was selling came from aid delivered by the United Nations and others.
He said that he had bought items from someone else and was reselling them with markups. The vendor said he is supporting his family this way. He said he does not feel good about reselling, and he wants food prices to return to normal.
One liter of cooking oil that used to cost about 2.7 dollars before the conflict began now costs about 18 dollars.
Soaring prices of food have made it unaffordable for many residents.
Israeli media say aid supplies are sometimes stolen or resold.
A woman who came to buy food said fruit was too expensive, and she could only buy flour needed to survive.
She said serious starvation was happening in Gaza, and that she felt as if she was waiting for her turn to starve to death.
Countries including the United Arab Emirates and Jordan have been flying transport planes to airdrop aid supplies tied to parachutes on a daily basis.
People on the ground fight over the dropped supplies, and many are unable to get any.
A man said that providing aid this way was humiliating, and he wants entry checkpoints to Gaza to reopen so that people can receive supplies in a dignified way.
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