WFP says ‘handful of bakeries’ making bread again in Gaza

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Palestinian workers make bread in a bakery that returned to operation after being closed due to a flour shortage, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, May 22, 2025. (Reuters)
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  • “A handful of bakeries in south and central Gaza have resumed bread production,” WFP said

ROME: The UN’s World Food Programme said Thursday a “handful of bakeries” in Gaza had begun making and distributing bread again after Israel allowed aid trucks into the Strip.


“A handful of bakeries in south and central Gaza... have resumed bread production after dozens of trucks were finally able to collect cargo from the Kerem Shalom border crossing and deliver it overnight,” the WFP said in a statement.

“These bakeries are now operational distributing bread via hot meal kitchens,” it said.

 

Topics: War on Gaza WFP bread