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OVERVIEW
Building on the August 2024 Market Monitor Gaza report, this brief report highlights key developments in the Gaza market over the past three weeks. Despite ongoing challenges, notable shifts in market dynamics have emerged. This report focuses on important changes in commodity availability, price fluctuations, market accessibility, household consumption patterns, and cooking energy sources.
KEY FINDINGS
- Poor food diversity among the population in the Gaza Strip.
- The rapid increase in firewood prices, coupled with the limited availability of gas, is pushing more people into energy poverty.
- Humanitarian assistance continues to be the main source of food for households in the Gaza Strip.
- In the northern governorates, wheat flour and canned food are the only food items readily available in the market.
- In Deir Al-Balah and Khan Younis, wheat flour, canned food, rice, pulses, and vegetable oil remain available. However, there is a moderate shortage of vegetables and eggs, and dairy products are in severe shortage.
- More than half of the population in the Gaza Strip is facing difficulties accessing markets.
- The formal banking system's limited infrastructure worsens the issue, as there are currently no operational ATMs in Gaza compared to 91 before the conflict.