In late November, two girls and a woman were crushed to death when trampled by a crowd of starving customers at al-Banna Bakery in Deir al-Balah.
Nisreen Fayyad, 50, a mother of four, Rahaf Abu Laban, 17, and Zeina Juha, 11 were all killed in an incident that dramatically illustrated the desperation of starving Palestinians in Gaza before a ceasefire came into effect last Sunday.
Since then, Israel has finally allowed significant amounts of humanitarian aid to enter Gaza after 15 months of an imposed blockade on food, water, electricity, medicine and fuel.
But before that, Gaza’s 2.3 million people were having to survive an imposed famine that had spread across Gaza in July last year when the UN said that 34 people, mostly children, had died of malnutrition. ….more