US Edition‘We don’t want you to die’: Palestinian mom’s children fear for her life as she sets out to get food
GAZA STRIP, JUL 30 – The 11-week blockade has left 2.2 million Palestinians facing famine, with over 11,500 children treated for malnutrition and 63 deaths from starvation in July, the World Health Organization said.
- A mother in Gaza hears her children tell her, 'Don’t go, Mama, don’t go to the aid centers, we don’t want you to die, Mama,' expressing their fear for her safety while seeking food.
- She described her journey to an aid center as long and dangerous, facing risks from thieves, Israeli soldiers, rockets, and drones.
- A pot of soup from a charity kitchen is insufficient for her eight hungry children, highlighting their desperate situation.
- According to the mother, the ongoing famine has worsened, and she is now caring for her family alone, stating, 'A year ago, our bodies could handle it, but now, it’s famine on top of famine.
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Feeding babies in Gaza: Palestinian mothers out of resources
In Gaza, mothers of very young children are running out of resources to keep their babies alive amid a deepening famine. With infant formula virtually impossible to find, severe malnutrition is spreading rapidly among children under the age of two. In a desperate race to keep their babies from starving, mothers are turning to whatever they can find—tea, lentil soup, herbs, or even tahini. But these substitutes are not enough.
In the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip, children are losing their lives to hunger. With food shortages reaching their limits and their breast milk running dry, mothers cried out in despair, "If this continues, we'll die."
By Tareq Al Hilou, Sarah El Sirgany, Abeer Salman, Paula Hancocks and Eyad Kourdi, CNN en Español It's a long and dangerous road to the point where trucks are expected to pass with help to Gaza. Um Khader and other women living in neighboring tents gather together next to a car in the dark, surrounded by a large crowd of men. You don't see many women around the bonfires dotting the horizon near Gaza City on this June night, caught on video. Only…
Risking her life to feed her children or starve them, this is the impossible choice faced by Palestinian mothers in the Gaza Strip.
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