Live, Gaza: “Massa -Hunger Need spreads to the Gaza Strip,” warns several hundred NGOs, including Doctors Without Borders, Doctors of the World and Oxfam

Bashar Taleb, 35, one of the four photographers of the French press office (AFP) that this year has been selected for the Pulitzer prize, lives in the ruins of his house in Jabaliya al-Nazla, in the north of the Palestinian enclave.

‘I had to interrupt my work several times to look for food for my familyhe says. For the first time I feel completely shot. »»

His colleague Omar al-Qattaa, a 35-year-old photographer and also a candidate for the Pulitzer, says he is exhausted: “I have to wear heavy equipment, walk for miles (…). We can no longer go to the reporting scene, we no longer have any strength because of hunger. »»

It depends on analgesics to relieve back pain, but says that basic medicines are not found in pharmacies, while the lack of vitamins and nutrients worsen the situation.

Khadr al-Zanoun, 45, who lived in the city of Gaza, said she had lost 30 kilos since the war. The journalist evokes fainting because of the lack of food and water, as well as one “Extreme fatigue” And the difficulty to work: “My family is also until the end.” “

The photojournalist Eyad Baba, 47, moved from the south of the Gaza Strip to the center in Deir Al-Balah, where the Israeli army launched a terrestrial offensive this week, had to leave a crowded and unhealthy camp to rent a housing at an exorbitant price, to accommodate his family. “I can’t handle this hunger anymore, she touches my children”he says.

“As part of our work, we were confronted with all possible forms of death. The fear and feeling of a threatening death accompanied us everywhere”continues the last and emphasizes that a journalist works in Gaza “Under the constant threat of weapons”. “Hunger pain is stronger than fear of bombing He adds.

AFP journalist Ahlam Afana, 30, underlines another difficulty: a tiring “Liquidity crisis”Coupled to exorbitant bank costs and unbridled inflation on the rare available foods comes to deteriorate the situation.

Liquid recordings can be loaded up to 45 %, Khadr Al-Zanoun explains, while the price of fuels explodes-where we find it, making every trip on the car impossible.

“Prices are exorbitant”Desplore Ahlam Afana, Retailer: “ A kilo of flower sells between 100 and 150 Israeli Sikkels (25 to 38 dollars), which exceeds our resources, even to buy a few kilos a day. »» When “Rice costs 100 sickles, sugar exceeds 300, pasta 80, one liter of oil between 85 and 100. The tomatoes are sold between 70 and 100 sikkels. Even seasonal fruits – grapes, figs – reach 100 sickles per kilo.” “We can’t even afford it. I don’t even remember their taste”She testifies.

The journalist explains that she has worked from a dilapidated tent, in a stifling heat: “I move slowly. It’s not just the bombing that threaten us, it’s hungry that eats us away. I don’t just cover the disaster. I live it.” “

The video Youssef Hassouna, 48, says that the loss of colleagues, friends and relatives has experienced it “In any way possible”. Despite one “Deep inwardly empty”He says he will continue to practice his profession. “Every image I record can be the last track of a life buried under the rubble”he said.

Zouheir Abou Atileh, 60, former employee of the AFP office in Gaza, shares the experience of his colleagues and talks about a situation “Catastrophic”. “I prefer death above this life”he says.

Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) remembered on Tuesday that more than 200 journalists had been killed in Gaza since the attack on October 7, 2023.