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The brutal Israeli war has cast a severe shadow on the residents of the Gaza Strip, including a Gazan woman who was displaced with her children and grandchildren from Jabalia al-Balad (north) to Deir al-Balah (centre), where she finds it very difficult to secure basic needs of food and medicine.
The displaced woman, Maryam Lawa, said in statements to Al Jazeera that 120 days had passed without tasting any meat, chicken, or fruits, and that she had lost 35 kilograms of weight due to lack of food and fear and terror as a result of the war.
Since the start of the war on Gaza, Maryam, her children and grandchildren have relied on ready-made canned food, such as meat, peas, and beans, to satisfy their hunger. She says that their per capita share of this food does not exceed half a loaf and a piece of canned meat daily.
The suffering of the war and the siege on Gaza increased Maryam’s suffering with her illness, as she suffers from a breast disease, and after the siege and the interruption of medication, she often fainted.
Maryam - who lives with more than 30 members of her family in a tent - did not hide her concern about the current conditions as the holy month of Ramadan approaches, especially if the current eating system based exclusively on canned food continues.
She pointed out that she has three grandchildren who suffer from diseases, two of whom have atrophy and need healthy food, and a third granddaughter who has the onset of kidney failure due to lack of food, amid the failure of attempts to remove her from the Gaza Strip for treatment abroad.
Despite these tragic conditions, Maryam affirmed her and her family’s steadfastness despite the displacement, destruction of homes, and killing of children, stressing her refusal to be displaced from the Gaza Strip and her adherence to the Palestinian land despite the crimes of the occupation.
Source: Al Jazeera