‘War profiteers’ add plaster to starch to increase its weight

A man from Gaza, whose family is resorting to boiling and eating plain cornstarch for their two meals a day amid the famine, describes how they found plaster added to the starch to increase its weight by sellers profiting on the desperation of people amidst the war.

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