Aid groups scrambling as Israel cuts off food and supplies to Gaza

Israel has blocked the flow of aid (AP)

Israel’s cut-off of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s two million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive, trying to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable.

The aid freeze has imperilled the tenuous progress aid workers say they have made to stave off famine over the past six weeks during Phase 1 of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, agreed in January.