Staff at the kitchen, run by the Wefaq Association for Women and Childcare (WEFAQ), say they have been forced to stop preparing hot meals for displaced Palestinians because they have no means to cook with, Al Jazeera reports.

“We have returned to a more difficult situation than before… Nothing has entered Gaza, neither food supplies, gas, nor flour: nothing at all. Many organisations have stopped working because there is basically no gas or firewood [to use] as fuel for cooking,” Buthaina Subeh, director of WEFAQ, said in a statement.

“There are calls from women and families who are now suffering from hunger; children screaming from hunger because there is no food,” she added.

The closure of WEFAQ’s kitchen comes as the UN’s humanitarian agency, OCHA, announced that at least 10 kitchens across Gaza have been forced to shut down because of depleted fuel supplies as well as danger from Israeli attacks.

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