In Gaza, hunger has become a daily certainty, just like the airstrikes and the screams that follow.
Hunger is not new to Gaza, but the scale and intensity of it now is unlike anything we have endured before.
Despite the ceasefire, Israel cut off the entry of humanitarian aid in early March, and since late May only a limited number of aid trucks have been permitted entry. Those that do arrive often carry far too little to meet the needs of Gaza’s population of more than two million people.
Most families have scraped by on just one simple meal each day. My family has survived on lentil soup as our only meal each day since June.
During this time, my five family members and I managed to buy a single kilogram of flour each week, just enough to keep our bodies moving, barely surviving from one week to the next. …..more
