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OVERVIEW
This report outlines important developments from the second half of October, based on ongoing market and household surveys. During this time, market conditions have worsened, characterized by diminished food availability, heightened price fluctuations, and limited market access. Furthermore, notable changes in household consumption habits and a growing dependence on alternative cooking energy sources have been recorded.
KEY FINDINGS
- Alarmingly poor food diversity observed across the Gaza Strip, bread and pulses being the dominant foods consumed. Vegetable consumption dropped from six days per week pre-conflict to nearly zero in October 2024, while meat and eggs declined from three days per week to almost nonexistent.
- In the Gaza Strip, prices of many basic food items increased by more than 1,000% compared to pre-conflict levels, with tomato prices rising significantly, by 8,789% in the northern governorates (from NIS 3.6 to NIS 320), by NIS 1,289. % in Deir al-Balah (from NIS 3.6 to NIS 50), and by 1,219% in Khan Younis (from NIS 3.6 to NIS 48).
- The Gaza Strip market is facing a severe crisis as many goods are on the brink of running out.
- In the north, there is an increasing dependence on burning waste for cooking fuel due to a critical shortage of cooking gas.
- While humanitarian assistance has dwindled, it still serves as the main source of food for households in the Gaza Strip.
- The significant drop in the average daily truck entries into Gaza to 58 in October 2024 marks the lowest level since November 2023.
- Nearly all of the trucks during October were humanitarian, with few commercial trucks crossing into Gaza