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A combination picture shows food products displayed with Shekel banknotes and coins illustrating how much they are worth in the local market in north Gaza, amid a hunger crisis and soaring prices, August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa/Illustration
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

Three potatoes for $40: The face of hunger in Gaza

Text: Beatriz Lecumberri / Photos: Mahmoud Issa (REUTERS)|Madrid|

Food prices have skyrocketed in the Strip, especially in the north, where it is very difficult to get aid to people. Families have not eaten fruits or vegetables since October, and nine out of 10 children suffer from malnutrition. There is no blood or rubble in these images, but they still encapsulate the humanitarian disaster suffered by two million people

From left to right: filmmakers Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham and Hamdan Ballal, three of the four directors of 'No Other Land,' in Mallorca.
CINEMA

The Israeli and the Palestinian who teamed up to film one of the best documentaries of the year: ‘The camera is our only weapon’

Yuval Abraham, who has received death threats in his country, and Basel Adra presented ‘No Other Land’ at the Atlántida festival in Mallorca after it was awarded a Silver Bear at the Berlinale. ‘It’s very hard for us to be screening the film in Spain while the nightmare and attacks continue in Gaza’

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