For weeks, the Gaza Strip’s southernmost city, Rafah, was one of the few places where desperate Gazans could find some aid and food.
Bakeries sold bread; fuel powered generators; markets were open, if expensive.
But since Israeli forces began an incursion in the city this month — effectively closing the two main crossings where aid enters — Rafah has become a place of fear and dwindling supplies. Bakeries have shuttered. So have malnutrition treatment centers. The price of the firewood that many people now use to cook has doubled. Tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers have grown so expensive that they are sold by the piece, not by the kilogram.
Families hide what canned goods they still have. They eye their emptying sacks of flour, calculating how long they will last.
“There’s always something missing in the tent,” said Ahmed Abu al-Kas, 51, who is sheltering in Rafah with his family. “If we have bread, we don’t have water.
If we have firewood, we don’t have some basic vegetables.”
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@MindfulW3lfareSocialist2yrs2Y
Israel: there’s no hunger in Gaza, that’s a libleous lie… khamas khamas khamas khamas
Gaza: 10,000s scrambling over one truckload of food aid, under rain, fire, bombing & shelling!
An “extermination zone” (in the words of Israelis)
That is what happens when you support, assist and protect a terrorist organisation they don’t care about you. They care about them. You are just collateral damage. They got what they wanted. You got what you wanted. You got what you deserve..
why doesn't hamas - the government in gaza - feed their own people?
Hamas could put an end to the suffering of the Gazans they "love" so much immediately by releasing all the hostages unconditionally. Hamas started this war but Israel will finish it. A lot of Arabs are sympathetic to Israel and hate Hamas - a murderous puppet of the Ayatollahs.
@ViperHarryPatriot2yrs2Y
Yet they still do not release their child hostages or come out of the tunnels. Why?
@ApricotsTommyDemocrat2yrs2Y
Blaming an entire population for Hamas is like blaming all of USA for Trump. It isn't how 81M of us want it. We voted him out yet he's still spreading hate to every corner of the world bc he feels that possibility of forever power within his grasp.
Protect us Democracy!
Yes, a horrible humanitarian catastrophe caused 100 percent by terrorists. To this day Israeli hostages are being held with these people in the balance, Israel was attacked. The people who attacked them hid behind the innocent putting them in the crossfire.
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