Once a staple food, chicken becomes luxurious commodity in Gaza

There’s a continuing shortage of cooking gas in Gaza due to Israel’s border closures – but there isn’t always enough staple ingredients to cook in the pot. At least seven major poultry farms were destroyed during Israel’s recent attack on Gaza, and as FSRN’s Rami Almeghari reports, that’s made poultry a scarce and unaffordable luxury for most of the territory’s 1.5 million residents.

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