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Gaza- Parents in the Gaza Strip are fighting daily a silent battle that no longer revolves around safety, education or stability, but rather has become completely revolving around feeding their children.
Since Israel closed the crossings at the beginning of last March and prevented the entry of basic aid and foodstuffs, Gaza has entered a sharp stage of food insecurity, as food was scarce from the markets, and relief and aid programs stopped, and families today live on the crumbs of taca that no longer arrive regularly.
Preventing food entry has exacerbated malnutrition, especially among children and women.
Houses without dinner
Within the shelter center (west of Gaza City), Mason Hals, a mother of 3 children, complains about a state of depression and a physical wasting that afflicted her due to the scarcity of food, and the difficulty of securing it for her children.
“My little son has been 5 years old, for 4 months, what tasted, neither milk nor eggs, suffers from fragility in his teeth and whispers, and he has become stuttering with words. This is all of the lack of nutrition, the occupation prevents food from entering, and we sleep without dinner.”
She pointed out that her older son, a student in high school, needs a food that helps him to focus, but he weakens day after day, and he became meager and he no longer preserves his lessons and did not focus, and she mentioned that her middle daughter suffers from anemia, adding, “Before the war, I fed her milk, white and nuts, she was strengthening her blood, today, what is in anything, even milk has become a dream.”
Regarding her condition, Mason continues, explaining, “I myself did not return like before, this situation happened to me with depression and psychological crises, and he severely affected my behavior with my children and their behavior with me, and also I had dizziness and low blood pressure, and I am no longer able to work as a time in washing, cooking and arranging the house.”
She talked about how to spend her day looking for food for her children, and she says, “We start to run for breakfast, if we meet a bit of dry bread or rice, we praise our Lord. The time of the hospice answered eating daily. Now a few, and if it comes early, we rejoice, and we rely on it, and the children’s hunger is silent.”
She stated that her children often sleep without dinner, which is a problem for her young son who cries all the time because he used to drink a glass of milk, or eat a “sandwich of cheese”, which is completely missing now.
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“Yesterday I felt that I would drop the wasting of the wasting. I would have signed, I only asked a piece of quilt, and then a grill improved.” With these words, the Medal of Al -Sadudi, a mother of 7 children, started her conversation inside her tent in a shelter in Gaza.
Wissam, like other mothers in the sector, is not looking for luxury or diversity in meals, all her concern is to satisfy her hungry children. “My children are eating one meal a day. We rely on the hospice, but it has rarely rarely when it comes (comes) and when you come, the entire center is not enough,” she says to Al -Jazeera Net.
In the normal situation, she was a daily baking medal approximately 40 loaves for her family, but she stopped completely a week ago after the flour ran out, adding, “Now we have no bread.” “We forgot the taste of vegetables and meat, the prices are fire, and there is nothing in the market in the first place, we live in real starvation, the situation has become worse, wasting, dizziness, lack of concentration, and diseases are spreading quickly due to weak immunity.”
The voice of Nidal Halas, director of a shelter center located inside a school in the southern Al -Randa neighborhood, was full of disability after he finished distributing a quantity of lentils to the displaced. He told Al -Jazeera Net, “10 large pots of lentils, which ended in just 10 minutes, imagine? There were many people, and the majority did not get anything,” he told Al -Jazeera Net.
He referred to the school gate, and he said, “People come from remote areas, and not only from our center, they walk a kilo and two, for a liter of lentils to satisfy their children.”
With a lot of grief, Nidal stated that the recipients have become rare and shrinking by up to 90% due to the lack of foodstuffs in the markets, after it came to the accommodation center on a daily basis. “Many people want to eat, and we do not have what we give them … currently we cover only 30% of people’s need,” he added.
Real hunger
According to the director of the shelter, Gaza entered the real hunger phase about two weeks ago, with the majority of the recipients stopped working, the majority of goods from the markets, and the high prices of their prices.
He continues, “The wasting is apparent on all, some fall and some fainted, the health and psychological situation is difficult, and people are attending two hours before the hospice, and you can go without taking any eating.”
Local and international relief institutions say their food stocks have been completely running out, which prompted the World Food Program to stop the operation of the sector bakeries, and UNRWA has stopped distributing flour to families.
Ibrahim Irschi, director of the Nutrition Program at the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Authority office (IHH), will stop today, Monday, the distribution of nutritional supplements designated for children, pregnant women and lactating women, after the inventory runs out.
“In the past, we were distributing milk for children and basic foodstuffs, and when we run out, we tried to withstand at least to distribute supplements, but even this ran out,” he added. “We could not enter any new aid due to the continued closure of the crossings.”
Archi warned that stopping the distribution of nutritional supplements to the weak groups has a direct threat to the lives of children. Stressing, “Malnutrition has become a daily reality, and children in Gaza are now facing a real threat to their health, but rather their lives.”