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Food insecurity mounting in Gaza

Friday, 29 May 2015 12:16 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 29 May 2015 12:21 AM ]

A Palestinian boy walks past destroyed buildings as he brings food to his family on March 11, 2015 in Beit Hanun in the northern of Gaza Strip. (AFP)

Ashraf Shannon
Press TV, Gaza

Nearly eighty percent of Palestinians in Gaza are facing food insecurity after years of land, air and sea blockade imposed by Israel, coupled with several military offensives against the coastal enclave. Attacks on fishermen and farmers have been depriving Gaza’s one-point-eight million population of fresh and healthy food. Ashraf Shannon has the details in the following report.

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