Hunger and malnutrition stalk Gazans, a year on from ceasefire

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A year after a ceasefire, severe hunger and malnutrition remain widespread in Gaza despite expectations that aid access would improve. Humanitarian community kitchens are providing essential food to families, including Niyaha al-Masri and her eight children.

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. Masri has little choice. Without the kitchen run by humanitarian groups, she and her eight children would have "nothing at all", the 35-year-old told AFP.