Gaza food kitchens still missing essential products despite ceasefire
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BBC Anera's kitchen in al-Zuwayda is one of more than 35 across Gaza providing 210,000 hot meals per day
Garlic simmers in huge metal pots heated over open wood fires and set up in a long line. Cooks add canned tomatoes and peppers with handfuls of spices, stirring the sauce with giant spoons. What is being prepared here is not just lunch, it is a lifeline. American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera) opened this community kitchen in al-Zawayda in central Gaza after the ceasefire began six weeks ago. The US humanitarian organisation has another kitchen in al-Mawasi in the south of the strip, which the BBC visited in early May.
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