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Key findings - Gaza Strip
- Prices for the majority of food items are currently lower than pre-ceasefire prices in the first week of October 2025, with reductions ranging from 38 to 96 percent. However, most prices remain higher than pre-crisis levels (September 2023), in some items by 3 to 233 percent. While availability of goods has improved drastically since the ceasefire, with unemployment in Gaza at over 80 percent, the key challenge faced by households is the lack of purchasing power to buy many of these items (food access), highlighting the criticality of digital cash transfer programmes.
- Food diversity remains far below pre‑conflict levels, yet the steady month‑to‑month improvements in food availability and consumption patterns point to a slow but meaningful path toward recovery. This trend underscores the critical role of market revitalization and sustained humanitarian assistance in maintaining and accelerating this progress.
- The price of wheat flour remained stable in Gaza City in the third week of January, with the price of the 25 Kg bag standing at 25 NIS. In Deir Al-Balah it witnessed a small increase compared to the previous week, with the price of the same bag standing at 40-45 NIS. In Khan Younis the price of the 25 Kg bag decreased from its previous price of 35 NIS last week to 25 NIS this week.
- Chicken eggs prices are stable at around 23-25 NIS per cartoon (30 eggs), a price that is way lower than pre-ceasefire levels that reached 600 NIS for the same cartoon. However, this price is 64-79 percent higher than pre-crisis levels (September 2023).
- Prices of chicken remain largely stable as follows: whole chicken 21 NIS per Kg, chicken breast 12 NIS per Kg, chicken wings 8 NIS per Kg, chicken liver 14 NIS per Kg, chicken thighs 20 NIS per Kg.
- 8 Kgs of cooking gas were available through the official system in limited quantities and sold for 65 NIS, while in the black market the price of one Kg reached 95 NIS in Gaza City and 120 NIS in Deir al-Balah.
- Data from 2720 and the Gaza Chamber of Commerce, suggests a decrease in January thus far in the number of humanitarian and commercial trucks entering the Gaza Strip, compared to December. The daily average of 180 trucks seen until 19 January, is not keeping par with a daily average of 250 trucks during December, partly due to additional requirements imposed on commercial actors.
- A sizeable proportion of the commercial commodities entering centered on high-monetary value, but low nutritional value items, such as soft drinks and chocolate, whose prices dropped this week with the large influx in quantity.
- While most of buying and selling transactions are done online through digital cash transfer/banking apps, the liquidity problem persists in the context of limited employment, constrained and market functionality.
- Digital payment fees are still standing at around 14-15 percent compared to 35 percent in September 2025.
- Consumption patterns continued to improve in January, with households averaging two meals per day compared to just one in July. However, one in five households still consumes only one meal daily, 17 percent have reduced daily meal portions, 44 percent have cut their number of daily meals both slightly better than in December and 25 percent continue to limit adults’ food intake to prioritize children every day.
- 55 percent of the population reported that they continue to rely on waste burning as an alternative to cooking gas in January, an alarming increase compared the 46 percent that reported doing so in December. Ensuring a consistent and sufficient supply of cooking gas is therefore an urgent priority to mitigate the serious health risks associated with unsafe cooking practices.