Food for sale: More Food Reaches Gaza, but It's Still Not Enough

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/world/middleeast/gaza-aid-trucks.html

More Food Reaches Gaza, but It’s Still Not Enough

Aid to the devastated territory has increased since the cease-fire took effect and prices have fallen. But many trucks going into Gaza are bringing food and commercial goods to sell that most people cannot afford.

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By Liam Stack
Visuals by Saher Alghorra
Reporting from Tel Aviv
Oct. 28, 2025

Hundreds of trucks enter Gaza daily now. Some carry aid from international organizations. Others bring donations from foreign governments. But relief workers say most of what is going in appears to be commercial goods bound for markets.

While there is no question that aid flows have increased since the cease-fire began two weeks ago, many residents say they cannot afford to buy the food that is for sale.

“Most of the trucks are of a commercial nature, and after two years of this war, most Gazans are unable to purchase items from the markets,” said Bahaa Zaqout, a spokesman for the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee. “The prices of the items that are entering are very expensive.”

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[AloeVera]

1. I see Israel has devised a new tactic for keeping the starvation going.

It never ends, does it?