by Belle Carter, Natural News:
Since Israel launched a full siege on Gaza on Oct. 9 as retaliation to the violent Hamas attack two days prior, the blockade it imposed cut off food, water, fuel, electricity and other necessities to the besieged enclave.
Following more than 30 days of non-stop attacks, resources have been exhausted. Generators can no longer function due to lack of fuel and even emergency food supplies are no longer available. Thousands of Palestinian civilians have been trapped in the enclave since then and are facing starvation – which has particularly impacted the elderly, sick and young children. People are becoming frustrated by the lack of food and unsanitary conditions.
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“Yes, I can have a small amount of food to keep me going today, but there’s the constant worry of whether I will have food tomorrow,” one resident of the Jabalia refugee camp told the news outlet Middle East Eye (MEE). “I went to get dates so I could eat one in the morning, one in the afternoon and one in the evening.”
Another Jabalia resident said that mosques, which had water, had been bombed as well as water points and solar panels. “If we are not bombed to death, we are going to die of starvation. This is a huge fear; I don’t need to explain how painful that would be” he said. “During these times of crisis we are being forced to drink any water we can find, even if it’s not clean.”
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said that as days pass by, “hunger and despair are turning into anger.” Worse, rights group Euro-Med Monitor confirmed that Israel is indeed waging an “extensive war of starvation” against Gaza’s civilian population. “Israel has deliberately focused its attacks over the past few hours on targeting electrical generators and solar energy units, on which commercial facilities and restaurants depend to maintain the minimum possible level of their work,” the group said in a statement published on Nov. 5.
The Geneva-based independent organization added that Israeli attacks have also targeted agricultural areas east of Gaza, flour stores and fishermen’s boats, leaving no sources of food. “It’s been five days since we last found and ate bread. It’s getting harder to find food in markets. Items that completely ran out include cheese, yogurt and mortadella,” Maha Hussaini, MEE’s correspondent in Gaza, posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. “A real starvation catastrophe has already started in Gaza while Israel persists on cutting off food and fuel supplies.”
