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Hunger, looting and lost childhoods: Gaza’s engineered collapse by Ahmed Abu Artema

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What kind of psyche can emerge from such extermination? Will anyone who survives be able to recover?

The wounds inflicted on our souls cannot be captured by news bulletins, nor measured by statistics. They are devastating losses, lodged deep in the core of our humanity.

I ran into a friend on the street, once a university professor before this genocidal war. His face was pale, and his clothes looked as though they hadn’t been changed in months. His expression bore the weight of a lifetime of burdens. 

I greeted him: “How are you?” It was a banal, hollow question, just to start a conversation. He replied: “Our dignity has been humiliated. We live in a time where thieves and looters thrive, while the honourable die of hunger and despair.”

My friend captured reality precisely in that one sentence. Society here is being re-engineered according to a deliberate policy crafted by occupying authorities.

Continue reading at https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/hunger-looting-and-lost-childhoods-gazas-engineered-collapse

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Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza’s Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign by Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous

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GAZA CITY—Israel’s war of extermination in Gaza continues to plunge to new depths of horror. Starving Palestinians have begun to collapse in the streets and die of hunger as a result of the siege. Those who try to get food are gunned down in ever deadlier aid massacres. The Israeli military issues frequent mass expulsion orders and further expands its ground operations, slicing up the enclave and forcibly displacing Palestinians into more concentrated zones. All the while, the relentless aerial assault and ground attacks persist.

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“My son cried all night from hunger”: The Palestinian children starved to death by Israeli authorities on DCI Palestine

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  1. “Young Palestinian children are dying hungry and in pain because Israeli authorities have deliberately blocked humanitarian aid to north Gaza, which is an act of genocide,” said Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability program director at DCIP. “Between the closure of the Gaza Strip and Israeli forces’ nonstop attacks, we simply do not know the full scale of the starvation crisis. Without an immediate ceasefire and arms embargo enacted by the international community, more Palestinian children in Gaza will die of starvation.”
  3. DCIP field researchers collected testimonies from the parents of children who died from malnutrition and dehydration at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the city of Beit Lahia in north Gaza as a result of Israel’s campaign of genocide.

Kamal Adwan hospital and other hospitals in Gaza have been unable to gather comprehensive data on the extent of child fatalities due to malnutrition and dehydration due to the ongoing genocide and severe staffing shortages.

Continue reading at https://www.dci-palestine.org/_my_son_cried_all_night_from_hunger_the_palestinian_children_starved_to_death_by_israeli_authorities

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Israel’s starvation policy in Gaza is forcing people to eat tree leaves by Tareq S. Hajjaj

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  1. Ahmad Abdulrahim, 38, strolled the remains of the markets in Gaza City with 150 Shekels in his pocket, the amount of money he used to feed his family of five for a week before the genocide. Today, that amount can hardly buy a single meal.
  2. … “I’m starting to deal with my kids as adults,” he said. “I’m telling them this is war, and our enemy wants us to starve. I’m telling them that we should be thankful that we have been able to survive so far. I promise them that when this war ends, I will bring them whatever they want.”

Continue reading at https://mondoweiss.net/2024/07/israels-starvation-policy-in-gaza-is-forcing-people-to-eat-tree-leaves/