Turkish aid agency distributes food aid to Gaza’s poor

By Nour Abu Aisha

GAZA CITY, Palestine

Turkey's Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) on Thursday distributed food packages to needy families in the Gaza Strip.

Mahmoud al-, the IHH’s spokesman in Gaza, said the relief agency had distributed 5,000 food packages to poor families and orphans across the coastal enclave, which remains the target of a decade-long Israeli-Egyptian blockade.

“The IHH will continue providing assistance [to needy Gazans] during the upcoming month of Ramadan,” al- told Anadolu Agency.

Since 2007, the Gaza Strip’s roughly 2 million Palestinian inhabitants have groaned under a crippling Israeli-Egyptian blockade that has deprived them of many basic commodities -- including food, and medicine -- and which has largely destroyed the local economy.