While the Muslims in Gaza are preparing for Mark Eid on Mark Eid this weekend and at the end of the holy month, the families say that they hardly get over the ends and that there are no food for almost a month.
The 38 -year -old Rania Hegazy, who is currently protecting with her husband and three children in a tent in Gaza, was ordered by the Israeli army to evacuate Beit Lahiya in the north of Gaza last week.
“We live from dosing food. There is no clean water or no real hygiene,” Hegazy told CBC News Freelance Video Mohamed El Safe on Thursday.
“The last Ramadan was bad, but it is worse.”
Almost a month after Israel has a complete blockade for all help and goods that occur in Gaza Strip, humanitarian organizations say that their food supplies are disappearing when food prices rise. Hegazy said that it is always more challenging every day to find food to feed your family, especially during Ramadan – a holy month in which millions of Muslims in the whole world of dawn to sunset fast as a form of worship.
“It was more than a year and a half that we are forced to switch from one place to another. My children suffered a lot,” she said.
EID – This literally leads to the celebration in Arabic and the end of Ramadan – is expected to arrive on Sunday. Hegazy says she has problems knowing what to tell your children – who are between four and six years – if you ask about clothing or toys.
“Eid? There is no oath.
“My daughter asks me for a new outfit for oath … something simple, a blouse or a dress, but I can’t get it for her,” she says and wipes tears away.
Last year, the family protected in the north of Gaza, where a large part of the population had to flee to the south due to the heavy Israeli bombing.
Hegazy says they break their fast with what they can find – often the rice is with a kind of canned food. On Thursday it was a rice with beans next to a bowl of Makkaroni, who conveyed another family in her camp to share them with them.
“Today we found part of rice, and thank God that we thank God,” she said. “During the Ramadan last year we couldn’t find a rice to eat – there were mass hunger.”
Food prices rise when the supplies disappear
Israel resumed bombing and land operations in Gaza last week and broke a two -month -old armistice in the middle of rows over the expansion of the lines. Two weeks earlier, it made a ban on humanitarian aid by entering Gaza strip. It is said that the measures should put Hamas under pressure to release the remaining hostages. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly threatened to confiscate the area in Gaza if the militant group refuses to return it.
Before the war, Hegazi said that families usually hold meetings and made meals in Ramadan – mainly with meat, salads and soups. She said they would prepare orchards and Lima – A dessert from the Middle East similar to a small pancake – often filled with cheese, cream or nuts, then fried or fried and soaked with syrup.
But the prices for all foods have risen over the Gaza Strip since the blockade began.
Her husband, like many in Gaza, is unemployed, she says, without the opportunity to make money during the war.
“Your father sits here. There is no work. There is nothing, we only sit here that are forced to move from one place to the next.”
Almost a month after Israel imposed a complete blockade for goods that penetrate the Gaza Strip in Gaza, said families who fasted Ramadan after the Holy Month, said that it was a fight to find food in the middle of dwindling supplies and increasing prices.
“I long for a salad and we can’t even buy a cucumber or a tomato. But thanks to God, it is important for everything that my family is safe.”
According to the World Food Program (WFP), the price for a 25-kilogram bag sells wheat flour for up to $ 71 $ 400 percent compared to prices before March 18.
Children draw food in the sand
Last year, the Palestinian Muslims in Gaza were in a similar location – under the persistent Israeli bombard and scratched enough food for Iftar during the Ramadan, since the supplies in the besieged enclave were dangerously low.
Since the Israeli air strikes were resumed last week, at least 855 Palestinians were killed and 1,869 were injured. Over half of the dead were women and children, according to the ministry.
Abubaker Abed, a Palestinian freelance journalist, said that children in Gaza are so hungry that they draw pictures of food in the sand.
“My friend told me today that he keeps looking at food videos because he would like to have a plate of meat or fish,” wrote Abed in one post on X Tuesday.
On October 7, 2023, the Israeli communities attacked by Hamas attacked the Israeli communities, killed around 1,200 people, according to Israeli days, and kidnapped 251 hostages in Gaza. There are still nine -and -fifty hostages there, 24 of whom are alive.
According to the Palestinian health authorities, the Israeli campaign has killed more than 49,000 people, with thousands still under the ruins.
Gazaner who are again exposed to a risk of a severe hunger, malnutrition
Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are once again the risk of serious hunger and malnutrition, since humanitarian food stocks are disappearing in the enclave without help through the limits, said WFP in a press release on Thursday.
The United Nations agency announced that it is still around 5,700 tons of food stocks in Gaza to support their business for a maximum of two weeks.
“With the deteriorating security situation, a rapid shift of people and growing needs, WFP has decided to distribute as soon as possible in Gaza as soon as possible,” said WFP.
The agency said that she is currently supporting bakeries that make bread, cook kitchens, hot meals and the distribution of food packages directly to families, all of whom are exposed to the “record -low” supply in the Gaza.
Mansoura Marouf, who protects her husband in the same tent camp in Gaza city, said that they rely on neighbors who share food with other families.
At the beginning of the war, the 52-year-old lost her only two sons, who now left seven children between them.
“This is the second Ramadan that we quickly break in the streets, our back is broken,” said Marouf, who also comes from Beit Lahiya and was instructed last week.
“My children died and we were set for protection. This Ramadan is only dark. This oath is dark.”
