For those interested, I suggest watching this video diary:

 

Every day, Mosab heads to the street markets. His family sends him because he is the best haggler, he says. While those with access to cash can shop in markets, others in Mosab’s camp rely completely on aid. He feels guilty that others around him have no choice but to go to the aid sites and says he is in 'constant fear' that his family's relatively privileged situation will worsen.

 

Some of the food on sale at the market comes from aid lorries - stolen by gangs and sold on to vendors. "In reality, here in Gaza, we’re living off the work of thieves."

 

Stock is limited, some of it rotten, and the lack of available produce has dramatically driven up prices, making even basic items unaffordable for many, he says.

He spends two hours walking in scorching heat to find, and haggle over, ingredients. Staples like onions, which he knows will lift his family's spirits, are a luxury in Gaza.

A single clove of garlic costs him £2 ($3) - about 10 times what his family used to pay for a pack of four whole bulbs.

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-d3d76a1d-f320-4047-8a57-cc6f567f08c0

 

 

 

 

Like food, cash is in short supply in Gaza, as ATMs and banks have been destroyed or ceased operating during the war, and large injections of cash have been barred by Israel, which says they would be used by Hamas.

Mosab says the commission rates the family have to pay to get cash can be more than 50%.

 

 

 

28 minutes ago, bannork said:

For those interested, I suggest watching this video diary:

 

Every day, Mosab heads to the street markets. His family sends him because he is the best haggler, he says. While those with access to cash can shop in markets, others in Mosab’s camp rely completely on aid. He feels guilty that others around him have no choice but to go to the aid sites and says he is in 'constant fear' that his family's relatively privileged situation will worsen.

 

Some of the food on sale at the market comes from aid lorries - stolen by gangs and sold on to vendors. "In reality, here in Gaza, we’re living off the work of thieves."

 

Stock is limited, some of it rotten, and the lack of available produce has dramatically driven up prices, making even basic items unaffordable for many, he says.

He spends two hours walking in scorching heat to find, and haggle over, ingredients. Staples like onions, which he knows will lift his family's spirits, are a luxury in Gaza.

A single clove of garlic costs him £2 ($3) - about 10 times what his family used to pay for a pack of four whole bulbs.

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-d3d76a1d-f320-4047-8a57-cc6f567f08c0

 

 

 

 

Like food, cash is in short supply in Gaza, as ATMs and banks have been destroyed or ceased operating during the war, and large injections of cash have been barred by Israel, which says they would be used by Hamas.

Mosab says the commission rates the family have to pay to get cash can be more than 50%.

 

 

 

Food aid comes into Gaza free, why is it being sold in markets and why so expensive, who steals it? That bag of flour comes from the UN and is even stamped not for sale, yet it costs $200

39 minutes ago, bannork said:

 

 

Some of the food on sale at the market comes from aid lorries - stolen by gangs and sold on to vendors. "In reality, here in Gaza, we’re living off the work of thieves."

 

 

 

Who's to blame ?

 

 

39 minutes ago, bannork said:

Mosab says the commission rates the family have to pay to get cash can be more than 50%.

 

   That is how Hamas make their money and why they insist only US $ can be sent into Gaza in aid money .

    Only Israeli Shekels can be spent in Gaza .

Hamas charge 50 % to exchange $ into Shekels .

Hamas are gangsters 

Oh I saw this headline and thought it was about Hamas starving hostages instead of the usual lying propaganda