“Their farms have been destroyed by the constant Israeli bombing,” the 35-year-old says. Mahmoud Sharab, also a resident of Khan Younis, says that although he is dismayed by the increasing prices, he doesn’t blame grocers for the inflation when it comes to vegetables. “I’m just worried about how we will feed each other after two or three days, and what we will live on in these difficult days that are increasingly suffocating us,” Rabie says. “We are being deprived of many staple foodstuffs, as if everything was arranged so that in addition to not having electricity or water, we would be starved.”ĭue to the lack of bread, the family and friends have relied on cooking pasta and rice, but supplies of those are drying up rapidly as well. “There is only cooking oil,” Rabie says, pointing out that the price of food has tripled since the war began.
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