Children in Gaza are facing severe hunger, with one in five now malnourished. Conditions are worsening each day as families struggle to find food.
“People here are neither dead nor alive, they’re like walking corpses,” said one aid worker. Many international organisations have warned that mass starvation is looming unless immediate action is taken.
While Israel maintains there is no blockade and blames Hamas for the crisis, aid groups report that only minimal supplies are getting through. Over a hundred people, most of them children, have already died from hunger.
Many parents are desperate. Some children rummage through garbage for food scraps, while families sell their gold and personal belongings just to buy flour, which has become scarce and unaffordable.
One mother shared how her eight-month-old baby has never tasted fresh fruit. Another pregnant woman said she hopes her baby stays in her womb longer to avoid giving birth in such harsh conditions.
Attempts to collect food aid are dangerous. Hundreds of people have been killed while trying to reach distribution centres or convoys. Many fear they will be shot if they leave their shelters to look for food.
“We go to bed hungry every night,” said a father. “We are not alive. We are dead inside.”
Another woman described how her husband was shot while trying to collect aid. “If we are to die from hunger, so be it,” she said. “The path to aid is the path to death.”
Families in Gaza say they feel abandoned and are pleading with the world to intervene before it is too late.
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