Three people, including two girls aged 13 and 17 and a 50-year-old woman, were crushed to death Friday as a crowd surged at a bakery in Gaza’s Deir Al-Balah, desperate for bread amid a worsening food crisis, news reports said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They died from suffocation, according to doctors at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. Severe shortages of flour have forced some bakeries to close, leaving families reliant on limited humanitarian aid for food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Crowds and chaos have increased as hunger deepens across Gaza, where food supplies allowed by Israel have dropped to near record lows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Gaza, reports indicate that 44,000 have been killed and nearly all 2.3 million residents displaced since the war escalated over a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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