Video: No gas for cooking in Gaza

2 June 2008

The blockade of Gaza has cut cooking gas supplies to less than one day's worth a week for the last six weeks. It is hard for housewives to get gas for cooking because people are using cooking gas to run their cars since petrol and diesel supplies have been heavily restricted in Gaza.

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