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Gaza- The famine, which ravaged the people of Gaza and destroyed their bodies that were exhausted by the raging war in its second year, pushed the student, Marah Al -Fadi, to the brink of despair, and she has betrayed her strength, and she has lost the ability to focus, and suffers from difficulties in academic achievement.
Hunger left its impact on the 18 -year -old, physically and psychologically.
Before the famine instilled its fangs in the bodies of nearly two million and 300 thousand Palestinians in the small coastal sector, as a result of the strict siege and the tightening of the occupation, the closure of the crossings and the prevention of the entry of humanitarian aid and commercial goods since the second of last March, it was fun studying daily at a rate of 5 hours, but today it hardly holds the book until it received it aside, despair and hunger.
Family hunger
And in words mixed with bitterness, she adds, “I feel that I lose the desire for life little by little because of fear and hunger. We face death in all its forms and colors, I often wonder what the value of the study and I am subject to death bombing or starvation.”
Marah lives with her family (7 individuals) in her partially destroyed house in the west of Khan Yunis, south of the Strip, and she says, “We are the Gazewa (the Gazans), the people of Ezz and dignity, the situation comes to us not to find a loaf of bread.”
Her family deals with one meal per day, which is rice or lentils, and about two months ago, she has no flour for the bread industry, amid the closure of the majority of bakeries that were supported by the World Food Program, and the high prices of the flour bag weighing 25 kilograms for about 400 dollars out of about 10 dollars, which is a price that the majority in Gaza is not strengthened by the war and lost their business and savings.
The health condition of Safaa (39 years), Marah’s mother, has deteriorated as a result of malnutrition, and she suffers from a heart problem and was previously underwent surgery.
“My mother’s heart is cut off, and I see the sorrow in the eyes of my father on the crying of Zain, who learned to speak during the war, and what I repeat most these days: I want to eat, I am hidden, and on that day we had eaten lentil soup only throughout the day,” she added.
This is the atmosphere surrounding a few weeks ago on the date of the high school exams in June, and she wonders, “How can I focus in my studies with hunger tablets, and my feeling burning stomach, where there is no food or drink, and prices are like fire.”
Loss of passion
“My mind almost stops thinking, I am a superior student and my numbers in the first secondary grade immediately before the war was 98%, and we did not study anything in the second secondary, and although Al -Tawjii was my dream as a gateway to the university, I feel the loss of passion, and despair, and the sensation of death approaches me.”
“My dream was to study medicine, and now all I hope was to escape from this crazy war, I was watching fire devouring my dreams with the leaves,” added Marah, who only found some of the fees of fire in light of the cooking gas crisis.
Like Marah and her family, and the majority of the Gazans, the flour is not available to the family of the student, Fathi Raed Al -Hajj Ahmed, consisting of (9 individuals), and the displacement from the city of Rafah and lives in a tent in the neighboring city of Khan Yunis.
This family does not have any food that is eaten in its dilapidated tent, and it depends entirely on what is provided by one of the few charitable taca that is still working at a minimum, while the rest was forced to close its doors due to the lack of food, including community kitchens belonging to local and international bodies.
And if he is fortunate for this family and does not have its share of the hospice, it fasts on that day, and the Hajj Ahmed says, “The crowd is severe on the hospice, and we often return with empty utensils and we do not find what we eat.”
This bitter reality was reflected in the ability of Hajj Ahmed (17 years) in terms of reviewing his lessons and preparing for high school exams, as his weight decreased since the closure of the crossings from 79 to 65 kilograms, lost the ability to focus, and his daily study hours decreased from 9 hours per day to less than 3 hours only.
Children affected
The starvation has a more deadly effect on the children, and the family of the child Walid Radi Al -Muridi (9 years) was forced to go to the hospital for suffering from malnutrition, and once he got food supplements, while it was no longer available after that.
This family (7 individuals) displaced from the Al -Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, and lives in a tent in the Austrian housing area, west of Khan Yunis.
The famine had its impact on the students of the “Kindergarten and the Gaza Dreams Model School” held from the tents, and the Meridi child is one of its students, who receive free education to compensate for the suspension of the educational process in the regular schools, and their capabilities on educational achievement clearly declined.
The principal of the school, Ahlam Abdel -Ati, tells Al -Jazeera Net that the number of students decreased from 1300 to 500, since the resumption of the war on March 18, and the famine was spread due to the sharp siege and the closure of the crossings, as a result of the people’s fear of their children from the movement, and the involvement of children in arduous tasks to provide water and food.
Abdel -Ati estimated that 95% of the school students come hungry and without eating any food, which was reflected in their academic abilities and the loss of focus, as is the case for volunteer female teachers who suffer from famine and malnutrition.
For his part, the health and nutritionist, Dr. Younis Awadallah, explains to Al -Jazeera Net that hunger has a significant impact on the vital functions of the human body, which explains the loss of students who suffer from famine to the necessary focus for studying and academic achievement.
The severe famine – according to him – leads to the loss of balance, focus and lack of control, and it may lead to some nervousness, behavior disorder, and even death.
