Feature: Empty stalls, hollow stomachs -- Gaza's markets in age of blockade

NAMPA / Xinhua

2025-07-22

GAZA, July 22 (Xinhua) -- At noon in Deir al-Balah's market square, Mohammed Nassar's shadow stretched thin across the bleached wood of empty stalls. His fingers trembled as they wiped sweat -- not from labor, but from exhaustion. "I've been walking here since six in the morning," the 35-year-old from the city of central Gaza told Xinhua. "And there is simply nothing to eat." "For over three weeks, my children and I haven't tasted bread. No......

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