Seven mouths, one meal: Feeding a family through Gaza’s food crisis

Gaza City — Whenever Mervat Radwan hears the community kitchen in her displacement camp will serve lunch that day, she breathes a sigh of relief.She takes a cooking pot and walks to the community kitchen with her nephew, six-year-old Ubay.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Brazilian activist demands Tunisia release Sumud Flotilla organiserslist 2 of 4UN slashes food aid for occupied West Bank and Gaza amid funding shortfalllist 3 of 4Israel’s Ben-Gvir lauds harsh conditions for Palestinian female prisonerslist 4 of 4Israeli settlers surround Palestinian home in occupied West Bank’s Qusraend of listThe meal is rarely enough for the seven people in her household, so she has to supplement it with whatever else she can find. A can of tuna, beans or peas from an aid parcel can help make the meal stretch further.“Sometimes they give us a cooked meal, but it isn’t enough for seven people, so I try to find something besides it,” she told Al Jazeera.Community kitchens are a vital source of food for families with little or no income in Gaza, but their operations have fluctuated sharply in recent months.The kitchen near Radwan’s displacement site was closed for almost two months be...