Earning the cost has become a daily battle and hundreds of men, women and children are in endless queues, under the burning sun, outside the few community kitchens who serve nothing but lentil soup.
A community kitchen in western Gaza reveals a panorama of painful scenes in the midst of displaced persons, their cries for help and their urgent call to the world, ending their tragedy and relief.
Community Kitchen Workers are preparing lentil soup, while plastic bowls and empty plates are piled behind an iron fence, waiting for a small amount that many may not get a sip of.
After a bitter battle, Ziad al-Gharz, an older displaced person from Gaza, succeeded in obtaining a cup of lentil soup. He sat on the floor and started taking slow sips. He told One news That he had not tasted bread for 10 consecutive days.
‘We die from hunger here’
“I eat the lentil soup spread through the community kitchen,” he said. “I can’t afford a flower at all. I don’t have any money for it, so I try to get what the kitchen spreads. The people of Gaza are hungry.”
Young Mohammed Nayfeh says he had waited four hours for a meal for his family.
“I stand here for four hours and I can’t get food in the crowds and the sun,” he said. “We die. We need support. We need food and drinks. Where is the world? We die here from hunger. Every day we only eat lentils. There is no flower, no food, no drink. We die from hunger.”
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A group of displaced Palestinians who gather for a local community kitchen in the western city of Gaza.
Burn in the sun or are trampled
“Or we burn in the sun or we are trampled under the foot”
Umm Muhammad, a displaced person from the Shujaiya district, described the macabre scene around her.
“There is no water, no food, no bread,” she said. “The bitterness of the situation forces us to come here. In the end we return with nothing. We return to burn under the sun or trampled under the foot because of overpopulation, and we return empty -handed. And nobody listens.”
Hussam Al-Qamari, who was also displaced from Shujaiya, said that the situation is no longer acceptable.
“We die and our children hunger,” she said. “So much happens with the people of Gaza. Much of what happens is unacceptable. An old man like me has been here since the morning, wearing a bowl for his children to have breakfast, and they are still not eaten.”
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UM Muhammad, who fled from the Shujaiya district in the eastern Gaza city to the western areas, is waiting to get food.
From classrooms to queues for lentils
According to the last findings of the Relief and Works Agency of the United Nations for Palestine Refugees (Nerrente), One in five children in Gaza City suffers from malnutrition, with cases that increase daily.
The image of this little girl standing behind an iron fence, her empty bowl is waiting for a little lentil soup, summarizing this horrible tragedy, for which children pay the toughest price.
Bassam Abu Odeh, a displaced person from Beit Hanoun, appealed.
“We call on all the free people of the world and peace enthusiasts to help us give food and water until this famine ends us imposed by the occupation. The trucks that are allowed by the occupation are not even a decrease in the ocean of needs. We have no one but God.”
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A young girl from Gaza is waiting to fill her container with lentils.
‘Food is not enough’
UMM Rami, a displaced person from the Zeitoun district, said that the needs of life in Gaza are missing and calling the world to look at the people of the comic with compassion.
“I came here to get a small amount of food to feed my children.” This is our reality now: we come to community kitchens for food, once lived in our own houses with dignity and respect. “
She said food is not enough.
“We have reached a point where we are in line with food and water. As you can see, the life of children now revolves around the lines for water and food. Food is not enough. We only have God. The world has to look at us and everyone has to wake their conscience.”
Unable to deny risk of famine
According to a warning issued by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), Gaza is confronted with a serious risk of famine, because food consumption and food indicators have reached their worst levels since the start of the current conflict.
De Alert emphasize that two of the three famine thresholds were observed in parts of the Gaza Strip, with the World Food Program (WFP) and the UN -Kinderfonds (Unicef) Warning that time is going to launch an extensive humanitarian reaction.
The UN Secretary General said that the warning confirms that Gaza is on the edge of the famine. He said that the facts are unmistakable and that Palestinians in Gaza suffer a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions.
“This is not a warning, but a reality that unfolds before our eyes,” he said.
He emphasized the need for dripping the help to become an “ocean”, with food, water, medicines and fuel that flows without hindrance.
“This nightmare must end,” he said.
Death looking for food
The United Nations office for the coordination of humanitarian matters (Ocha) said that days after the start of the tactical breaks announced by the Israeli authorities in Gaza: “We continue to witness victims among those looking for help and kill more by hunger and malnutrition.”
The UN office said that parents will continue to struggle to save their starving children. Desperate and hungry people continue to unload small amounts of help from trucks that succeed in leaving the crossings.
Although the UN and its partners use every opportunity to support people in need during unilateral tactical breaks, the conditions for providing help and supplies are far from sufficient, according to OCA.
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