2 h. ago A pregnant woman under Israel's blockade in Gaza's ruins fears for her baby

Israel’s military campaign decimating the Gaza Strip has made pregnancy and childbirth more dangerous for Palestinian women and their babies

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15 h. ago Gaza on brink of catastrophe as aid runs out and prices soar, groups warn

Palestinians face starvation and severe malnutrition as Israel’s blockade continues, say aid agenciesSoaring prices of basic foodstuffs, diminishing stocks of medical supplies and sharp cuts to aid distribution threaten newly catastrophic conditions across Gaza, Palestinians and international aid officials in the battered territory are warning.Humanitarian organisations including the World Food Programme and Unwra, which supplies food and services to more than 2 million Palestinians across Gaza, have now distributed the last of their stocks of flour and other foodstuffs to the dozens of community kitchens in the territory that serve basic meals to those with no other option. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Israel faces legal pressure at UN’s top court over Unrwa blockade

Hearings in The Hague over Palestinian aid agency ban mark major test of Israel’s compliance with international lawIsrael will come under sustained legal pressure this week at the UN’s top court when lawyers from more than 40 countries will claim the nation’s ban on all cooperation with the UN’s Palestinian rights agency Unrwa is a breach of the UN charter.The five days of hearings at the International court of justice in The Hague have been given a fresh urgency by Israel’s decision on 2 March to block all aid into Gaza, but the hearing will focus on whether Israel – as a signatory to the UN charter – acted unlawfully in overriding the immunities afforded to a UN body. Israel ended all contact and cooperation with Unrwa operations in Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem in November, claiming the agency had been infiltrated by Hamas, an allegation that has been contested. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago UN food agency says its foods stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel's blockade

The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s nearly 8-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory

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4 d. ago Sainsbury's: patisserie, hot food, and pizza counters service cuts

The supermarket is switching up how it bakes — and shoppers might notice the difference 🍞

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8 d. ago Despair in Gaza as Israeli aid blockade creates crisis ‘unmatched in severity’

Palestinians pushed into new misery as supplies of food, fuel and medicine run out in seven-week siegeGaza has been pushed to new depths of despair, civilians, medics and humanitarian workers say, by the unprecedented seven-week-long Israeli military blockade that has cut off all aid to the strip.The siege has left the Palestinian territory facing conditions unmatched in severity since the beginning of the war as residents grapple with sweeping new evacuation orders, the renewed bombing of civilian infrastructure such as hospitals, and the exhaustion of food, fuel for generators and medical supplies. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago All three South London bakeries named in Britain’s top 50 by The Good Food Guide are in Southwark

All three South London bakeries named in Britain’s top 50 by The Good Food Guide are in Southwark  Southwark News

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1 week ago Israeli strikes on Gaza 'kill family of 10 including five kids', health officials say

The UN has raised alarm over Israel’s blockade stopping food and supplies entering Gaza – where two million people are said to rely on one million prepared charity meals a day

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1 week ago ‘Keeping people alive’: Gaza’s last working bakery forced by Israel to keep on moving

World Central Kitchen mobile bakery’s production limited by flour shortage as result of Israel’s blockadePalestinians witnessed a large white trailer being laboriously towed through the bomb-pitted roads of southern Gaza by a red tractor earlier this month, though it is unclear how many realised it was one of their last humanitarian lifelines in the face of a total Israeli blockade.The trailer contained Gaza’s last working bakery, forced by Israeli evacuation orders to move around the territory so it can keep functioning. Aid workers say the amount of bread it can produce is only a fraction of the needs of the people of Gaza. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago UN agency closes the rest of its Gaza bakeries as food supplies dwindle under Israeli blockade

The United Nations food agency is closing all of its bakeries in the Gaza Strip

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3 w. ago The new Manchester restaurants, bars and bakeries opening in April 2025

A 'new wave' pizza restaurant, a Polish bakery with massive cakes, and a lavish steak house inside a historic bank will open in Manchester this spring

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4 w. ago 'Eid of sadness': Palestinians in Gaza mark Muslim holiday with dwindling food and no end to war

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had little to celebrate on Sunday as they began marking a normally festive Muslim holiday with rapidly dwindling food supplies and no end in sight to the Israel-Hamas war

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4 w. ago Gaza's bakeries could shut down within a week under Israel's blockade of all food and supplies

The U.N. says Gaza’s bakeries will run out of flour for bread within a week

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