Gaza: Cash crisis persists despite bank reopening

On Tuesday, dozens of people in Deir al-Balah spent hours in line at the Bank of Palestine hoping to access their money but were turned away.

The cash-strapped territory has been wrestling with cash liquidity since the beginning of the two-year war between Hamas and Israel.

“Without having the bank open and without money, it does not matter that the prices (in the market) have dropped,” Kamilia al-Ajez, who was displaced from the…