How One Gaza Family Dedicates Each Day To Finding Enough Food To Survive

DEIR AL-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP) -Es Every morning Abeer and Fadi Sobh wake up to the same question in their tents in the Gaza Strip: how will they find food for themselves and for them Six Little Children?

The couple has three options: maybe a charity will be open and they can get a pot watery lentils. Or they can try to jostling from the crowds to get some flour from a help truck. The last resort is begging.

If all of them fail, they don’t just eat. As it increases hunger energy, strength and hopes, it becomes more and more.

The estimated Sobhs, who lived in a coastal refugee camp in the west of Gaza, after being displaced more than once, is the same for families in the regions caused by war.

Humanitarian aid workers say that the last 22 -month war has increased due to aid restrictions. However, food experts warned at the beginning of this week “The worst scarcity scenario is currently playing in Gaza.”

Starting from March, Israel applied a complete blockade on food and other materials for 2½ months. His goal was to increase the pressure on Hamas to release dozens of hostage since his attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.

Again Help Flow Started again In May, quantity aid organizations are some of what they say is necessary.

The breakdown of the law and order made it almost impossible to safely deliver food. Most of the help entering Stacked or sold in markets at exorbitant prices.

Here is a look at a day in the life of the Sobh family:

The family wakes up in his tents, a 30 -year -old street vendor, Fadi Sobh, who says he is unbearable in the summer.

29 -year -old wife Abeer, who is difficult to come to fresh water, brings water from the sea.

One by one, the children stop in a metal basin, and their mothers spill themselves on their heads. Nine months. Other kids are more stoacı.

Abeer then rounds the beds and sweeps dust and sand from the tent floor. From a day, he begs for something for his family’s breakfast without food. Sometimes neighbors or passers -by gives him lentils. Sometimes he doesn’t get anything.

Abeer still gives water from a bottle. When you are lucky, there are lentils that he makes dust to mix into the water.

“One day it sounds like 100 days, because of summer temperature, hunger and distress,” he said.

Fadi goes to a nearby soup kitchen. Sometimes one of the children goes with him.

“But the food is rarely,” he said. The kitchen opens roughly once a week and is never enough for crowds. Most of the time, he said he was waiting all day, but he returned to his family without anything.

Fadi would go to a region where aid trucks in Northern Gaza came from Israel. There, the giant crowds of equally desperate people continue on the trucks and remove the food burden. Witnesses often say that nearby Israeli troops have opened fire. Israel says only fires warning shots, and the crowd is often a knife or pistol to steal the boxes.

Fadi, who was epilepsy, was shot in the leg last month. It weakened him too much to mix it for trucks, so he continued to try the kitchens.

Meanwhile, Abeer and three biggest children-10-year-old Youssef, 9-year-old Muhammad and 7-year-old Malak-Central Gaza’nin salt water from the salt purification facility to fill the plastic jerrycans’dan to fill the truck to fill.

Children are struggling with heavy JerryCans. Youssef leaned over to the sides as he loaded one on his back, Muhammad was dragging, trying to keep the small body away from the dust of the street.

Abeer sometimes goes to Zikim with Youssef. Most of the crowds are men – faster and stronger than him. “Sometimes I manage to buy food, and in many cases I return with empty hand,” he said.

If it fails, it will appeal to the feeling of philanthropy of the successful ones. “Thanks to God, you get rid of death, please give me something,” he says. Many said he responded to his defense and bought a small bag of flour for children.

He and his son became familiar faces. A man waiting for trucks regularly said that Youssef Abu Saleh said he saw Abeer struggling to buy food often, so he gives him some of him. “They are poor people and her husband is sick,” he said. “We are all hungry and we all have to eat.”

In the hottest part of the day, six children remain in or around the tent. Their parents prefer children’s sleep during heat – preventing them from running around, using energy and being hungry and thirsty.

As the heat relieves, the children go out. Sometimes Abeer sends them to beg for food from their neighbors. Otherwise, they will clean the bombed streets of Gaza, search the rubble, and garbage for anything to feed the family’s temporary stove.

They’re good to realize what can burn. Paper or wood residues are the best, but it is the most difficult to find. Bick Low: Plastic bottles, plastic bags, an old shoe – everything will do everything.

One of the children came across a pot in the garbage box one day – what Abeer uses to cook now. The family was displaced many times, and a small number of items remained.

Im I have to succeed, ”Abeer said. “What can I do? We’re eight people.”

One day later, the absolute foundations to survive – to cook food, water, food – after spending the search for the search, the family is sometimes sufficient for Abeer to cook. It is usually a thin lentil soup.

But most of the time there is nothing, and they all go hungry beds.

Abeer said he grew up weakly and often dizzy when looking for food or water.

“I’m tired. I can’t do it anymore,” he said. “If the war continues, I’m thinking of taking my life. I have no power or power anymore.”

Magdy reported from Cairo.