Most of the shelves were bare at convenience stores in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, as the population has increased due to displacement. Basic food items like bread, flour, sugar, rice, meat, and cheese are scarce, leaving people with limited options.
Most of the shelves were bare at Hassan Abu Shabab's convenience store in the centre of Khan Younis , a town in southern Gaza whose population has ballooned as tens of thousands of people displaced from the A few bottles of cooking oil and cans of tomatoes were left on one shelf. Other than those, there were only sweets, toilet paper, washing-up liquid and a few other random, non-edible items. No bread, flour, sugar, rice, meat or cheese.
Outside, two refrigerators normally stocked with sodas were empty. "Before the war, we used to sell goods worth about 1,000 shekels ($260) a day. Today, we have nothing to sell. People have money, but there is nothing we can sell them," said Abu Shabab, standing in the emptied store on Monday.Outside his store sat Um Ibrahim Al-Agha, a displaced woman, taking a short rest from her daily search for food. "You now go to the biggest stores in Khan Younis and you don't find anything you need. You don't find flour, sugar, rice, salt or anything to give to your child," she sai
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