GAZA, (PIC)
At an earlier stage of this ongoing brutal aggression against the Gaza Strip, Israel deliberately and systematically starved out the people in the north, in an attempt to push them to leave towards the south, as part of the forcible displacement plan to ultimately force them to leave to Egypt.
In the south, humanitarian aids were limited and intermittent. The condition was not, but seemed to be relatively better compared with the north, where no aids could be reached at all.
Nowadays, however, the whole Strip suffers from the worst siege and starvation ever, worse than the one that occurred before the ceasefire came into force on the 19th of last January. But on the 18th of last March, Israel resumed its assassinations, brutal bombing, and the complete blockade against the enclave.
For 35 days, the people of Gaza have been witnessing an unprecedented siege. Not a sip of water, a fragment of bread, or a pill were allowed into the Strip.
Above all, for 20 days, a brutal aggression has been targeting the unarmed Palestinian citizens, whether in their displacement camps, or even the injured in hospitals waiting for the unavailable cure.
Since the Israeli genocide was resumed on the 18th of March, at least 1,309 Palestinians have been killed and 3,184 have been injured, bringing the whole number of martyrs since the 7th of October 2023 into 50,669 and the injured into 115,225.
Moreover, the empty markets are another story. They have been running out of any goods, let alone food supplies. Available products are little and of high costs.
With the current financial crisis, unemployment, and scarce cash flow, providing the bare minimum of the basic needs for any family is impossible.
Furthermore, bakeries powered by the world kitchen stopped working last Tuesday as they ran out of fuel due to the ongoing siege that started from the 2nd of last March.
Palestinian citizen, Um Ahmad, says that the bakeries worked partially in the southern Gaza Strip before the ceasefire. However, today, the they stopped working completely. She added that no flour is available for her to bake her own bread.
Most of her time, Um Ahmad tries to search for a market where she can purchase any type of baked products for her ill husband and five kids. Every journey she makes ends without winning that bread, but instead with deciding to cook any of its alternatives such as lentils soup or macaroni.
Meanwhile, Abu Ali, an owner of a grocery store in Deir Al Balah in the central Gaza Strip, says with much grief that his store is completely empty.
Abu Ali affirms that the majority of the people of Gaza cannot afford to buy sufficient amounts of food supplies to be saved for a later time when hunger strikes harder, and therefore their suffering is immense.
Now that the majority of the people in Gaza suffer from the repercussions of unemployment, they depend totally on the food distributions where hot meals are cooked in huge amounts. Although not that nutritious, whoever manages to get some has a treasure.
Although flour could be available for some people in Gaza, the means of baking and cooking are not. Gas availability was out of the question long ago. On the other hand, its replacement, mainly firewood, has become scarce and very expensive.
In fact, searching for firewood has become a deadly task. Many people have been targeted for collecting wood for cooking purposes.
Despite the fact that they knew people collecting wood posed no danger to them, Israeli soldiers were not reluctant to shoot them dead, in a clear plan to starve out the people of Gaza and target any of those who seek a way out of famine.
Once and again, people in Gaza will literally be starved to death. However, their will to outlive bombardment and starvation and craft ways of life will always be unbreakable.
