Food has become rare in the Gaza Strip

The World Food Programme has warned that Gaza population faces a "high risk of famine", and only a trickle of aid has made it into the territory.

Earlier this month, one of Gaza's last grain warehouses was hit by Israeli strikes, and at least two of its five flour mills have been damaged.

Israeli strikes and ground operations have destroyed much of Gaza’s agricultural land as the winter season begins, compounding shortages and leaving the population of 2.3 million people with little prospect of being able to feed itself in the months to come.

Environmental, health and political crises worsened conditions. War has damaged croplands. Most of Gaza’s water is undrinkable. Without consistent electricity, sewage goes untreated and seeps into soils and wells. The scale of “de-development,” the United Nations has warned, made Gaza unlivable.

Even before the war, more than two-thirds of Palestinians in Gaza were struggling daily to find food, according to the World Food Program, and about three-fourths of the population relied on food aid distributed by UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian affairs.

Shortages were driven by a blockade led by Israel after Hamas took power in 2007. Israel controls all but one crossing into the enclave. It restricted food imports and largely banned exports.