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In light of the aggression launched by the Israeli occupation against the Gaza Strip and the siege it imposes on its residents, very painful reports and scenes are coming from the heart of the Strip, of children eating grass due to the lack of food, and other citizens grinding bird feed to make flour.

Two million people in the Gaza Strip, most of them women and children, depend on aid from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to keep them alive, an organization that some countries cut support for and which was providing relief to 85% of the population of the Strip.

Thomas White, Director of UNRWA Affairs in Gaza and Deputy UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs in Palestine, said earlier that they had received reports that people in the northern Gaza Strip were grinding bird feed to make flour, stressing that the Israeli army does not allow UNRWA convoys to reach those areas, “and when Their caravans are allowed to go, people rush to the trucks to get food, and often eat it right away.”

The painful scenes arriving from the Gaza Strip arouse the anger and dissatisfaction of social media users, which was evident in tweets and comments, some of which were reported in the episode (2/7/2024) of the “Shabakat” program.

Abdo wrote, "By God, mankind has become ashamed to see God's best creatures living through these calamities, while the Arabs around them cannot even bring food in."

For her part, Rabab Ahmed tweeted, “By God, if a screenwriter wrote a series, he would not be able to write this painful reality.”

Addressing his words to the residents and children of the Palestinian Strip, another tweeter named Buji said, “We are interrupting you. We cannot live after what we see.”

In her comment on the scene of a child from Gaza drinking muddy rainwater, Rima said, “A person no longer knows what to comment or say...no matter what we say or comment...do not underestimate such a scene...sorry, my love.”

In the same vein, Maryam commented on the child’s scene by saying: “If it were up to me, I would give you the water of my heart. Gaza bears the burdens of life for the nation of a billion.”

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recently revealed that there has been an increase in restrictions and refusal of humanitarian aid access to the northern and central Gaza Strip by the Israeli army.

In terms of numbers, the office said that the Israeli army refused the arrival of 56% of humanitarian aid shipments to northern Gaza, and 25% of shipments allocated to the central region during the month of last January.

Source: Al Jazeera