Gaza – the cry of a family that suffers from hunger and displacement: they are unable

Zeenat tent and her young husband, Moamen Abu Asr, are among the thousands of worn tents stacked on the Gaza Beach, which is no longer a place to rest or hike, but rather has become the last resort for thousands of Palestinian families who were cut off.

The continuous war and destruction, and the orders of the Israeli displacement, which remained only a small area of ​​the area of ​​the Strip to gather the Palestinians, pushed new waves from the displaced people towards a narrow coastal strip.

Throughout the Gaza sea port, the ranks of worn out and adjacent tents are accumulated on the beach, in a scene that reflects the suffocating humanitarian crisis, which has reached its worst conditions after more than 600 days of continuous hostilities.

The devastating port, after destroying all fishing boats in it, turned into a crowded camp, filled with harsh life and free of minimal elements of life.

A family lost everything

Amidst this tragic scene, the young man, Moamen Abu Asr and his family, have lived for nearly two months in a random tent that was erected from the provision of the hard -line and the stones and some of the borders of the waste of the destruction that caused the neighboring buildings.

Mr. Abu Asr sits alongside his children in front of their modest tent, contemplating pictures of his mobile phone that brings them back memories of life.

The United Nations News reporter narrated the story of the family’s displacement from the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, after the orders came to all the residents to evacuate “immediately”, Leave behind everything they have.

He said: “We came to us times that we were displaced once every two months. Every day it is suffering in a percentage of us … We came to the Gaza port, and we could not bring with us our food, drink, or even our tent that I made of iron.”

“There is nothing of life requirements.” This is how Mr. Abu Asr described the situation in this innovated camp. In order to support his family, he also created a profession to earn money, where he set up a workshop along the tent, in which small water tanks are suitable for 5 shekels, equivalent to $ 1.43.

“We preferred death.

He explained to our correspondent that the five shekels today in Gaza “It has no value, so the km of one flour has a hundred shekels ($ 28.6)”, In light of the scarcity of goods and their prices crazy, he added: “Our condition is very difficult, and we do not know what to do. By God, this is a life. We have preferred death.”

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that the humanitarian process in Gaza is one of the most operations facing obstacles “In the modern history of global humanitarian response anywhere.” Since March, the Israeli authorities have imposed a tight cordon on humanitarian aid and goods, to allow the past two weeks to enter what the United Nations described as “A point in the sea of ​​needs” From specific supplies to the Gaza Strip.

The organization and its partners were unable to deliver most of these small aid to people due to Israeli restrictions and insecurity. Most of what has been brought into the Strip was looted by a desperate resident who want to feed their families often.

“We live on water.

Inside the tent of the Abu Asr family, Zeenat – the wife of a believer – washed the little food utensils that she was able to obtain from the temporary kitchen that was established in the area.

The mother is trying hard to cook or provide food for her children, but for most days, she finds nothing but water.

She told the United Nations News reporter in Gaza: “Yesterday I cried a lot in the case of my son. He tells me: My mother, I want to eat.

fed up

As is the rest of the sector’s residents, talking about describing the suffering and conditions of this living family. Flies and insects fill their tent, while dogs around them are waiting for an opportunity to hunt their young.

Mrs. Abu Asr said: “Yesterday, a dog entered the tent and was tightening the core while my son was asleep near him. I thought he was tightening my child, so I started screaming and my husband went out and expelled the dog. We do not know where to go and what we did.

The Gaza port tents stand a witness to a worsening human tragedy, pushing residents to the brink of despair, where there is no sound above the screams of hunger, and there is no safe place that they seek except the sea.

Nothing expresses this despair more than the words of Mrs. Abu Asr, who called for the end of the war and a solution to the people of Gaza, “Otherwise, all countries meet one hand and throw a nuclear bomb on us and relax us because we are tired of this life.

With the expansion of Israeli military operations in Gaza, less than 18% of the area of ​​the Strip remains as a region where civilians are allowed. As for the rest of the area, either under direct Israeli control, or they are considered evacuation areas and are subject to continuous bombing.

The United Nations said that the catastrophic situation in Gaza “It is the worst since the war began,” With the continued bombing throughout the sector, especially in the north, where the last hospital was forced partially to evacuate on Thursday.

According to the Humanitarian Coordination Office, the displacement has continued throughout the Gaza Strip, with nearly 200,000 people in the past two weeks only.