LONDON: A Jordanian mobile bakery is providing hundreds of thousands of loaves each week for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, as Israel continues a blockade that has prevented aid from entering the territory since mid-March.
The bakery is one of the few in Gaza that remain operational, helping to provide food for nearly 2 million Palestinians amid an acute flour shortage that has forced most surviving bakeries to close.
Operating 19 hours a day, it produced about 390,000 loaves of bread in the past week alone as it continues to serve the urgent food needs of the population, despite restricted access resulting from the ongoing Israeli attacks, the Jordan News Agency reported.
The bakery is working with World Central Kitchen, an international organization that helps provide meals to the people of Gaza, which said it is distributing the bread to families across the war-torn territory, including difficult-to-reach places.
The Jordanian bakery, which was sent to Gaza in December, can produce about 3,500 loaves per hour, or about 75,000 a day. It forms part of Jordan’s ongoing efforts to provide medical and other humanitarian aid to the territory.
World Central Kitchen affirmed its commitment to supporting the people of Gaza during this critical period. Seven of the organization’s aid workers were killed by an Israeli drone strike in April last year.
