TULKAREM, March 6 -- Inside a makeshift kitchen located in a city office building, volunteers coat chicken slabs with paprika, oil, and salt before arranging them on trays and placing them into an oven. Once cooked, the meat is divided into portions and packed into foam containers, accompanied by generous servings of yellow rice from large steel pots.

The unpaid cooks at the Yasser Arafat Charity Kitchen in Tulkarem aim to bring a sense of relief to displaced Palestinians trying to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, reports AP.

An Israeli military operation in the West Bank weeks ago has displaced over 40,000 people. Israel claims the raid was intended to combat militancy in the occupied region, which has seen rising violence s...