Palestinian children waiting to receive available food (Reuters)
The hashtag “Northern Gaza is starving” topped social media platforms after a group of videos from the Gaza Strip documented the famine that people are experiencing, due to the ongoing war and the siege imposed by the Israeli occupation on the isolated strip, which does not receive food and humanitarian aid, which prompted refugees to resort to animal feed. To satisfy their hunger.
“If we do not die from the bombing, we will die from hunger.” With these words, Ghada Zaki from northern Gaza appealed to the world through a video she posted on her Instagram account, conveying the worsening hunger tragedy in northern Gaza.
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In another video published by Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat, a mother tells of her suffering with hunger after her handicapped daughter ate from hunger. She was living a good life before the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, even though her husband was an ordinary worker in the Palestinian government sector.
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Al Jazeera's correspondent in the Gaza Strip, Anas Al-Sharif, spoke in a blog post on the "X" platform about his suffering with the hunger that struck the northern Gaza Strip, saying, "I stand in front of the camera... to convey the suffering of my people and talk about the hunger we are in. Hunger takes over my body, so I stop talking for a while." And then it continued...and this is how we and all people are.”
I stand in front of the camera...to convey the suffering of my people
and talk about the hunger we are in.
Then #hunger takes over my body, so I stop talking for a while...and then I continue...
and this is how our situation is and the situation of all people #final_warning #continuous_coverage pic.twitter.com/oaOcA8GzHp
- Anas Al-Sharif Anas Al-Sharif (@AnasAlSharif0) February 19, 2024
Videos spread across social media platforms documenting the suffering of the people of Gaza with hunger, received great sympathy, especially in the Arab world, describing the scenes as painful and cruel.
This painful scene not only depicts the brutality of the Israeli occupation, but also the extent of hunger reached by the Palestinians in Gaza, which made death for a bag of flour a priority goal. #Gaza_genocide pic.twitter.com/vW8lmFP9gv
- Ramy Abdu| Rami Abdu (@RamAbdu) February 20, 2024
Scatter wheat on the mountaintops so that it will not be said that a bird is hungry in Muslim countries
People in Gaza are literally dying of hunger💔
Have women been unable to give birth for a lifetime for this nation? pic.twitter.com/2CHgnVMHVN
- Freedom of Hope (@Amal12341990) February 11, 2024
On the 137th day of the Israeli war on Gaza, the occupation continues to bomb many areas in the Gaza Strip, committing several massacres, while Palestinian resistance fighters are waging fierce battles with the Israeli army in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, leaving tens of thousands of civilian victims, most of them children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and massive destruction of infrastructure, which led to Tel Aviv appearing before the International Court of Justice on charges of “ Genocide".
Source: Al Jazeera + social networking sites