Overview

• The siege has entered its 89th day, leaving over two million Gazans cut off from essential food, medicine and fuel
• Basic staples have become unaffordable, with flour prices surging past $30 per kilogram and sugar exceeding $130 while markets run dry of milk, meat and vegetables
• UN figures show that more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since late May while attempting to access food aid
• Bombardment has destroyed most ATMs, bank branches and aid distribution points, forcing residents to pay up to 45 percent in fees for scarce paper cash
• Former UN aid chief Martin Griffiths and other international bodies warn that the blockade’s engineered starvation amounts to one of the gravest humanitarian crises and may violate international law