December 21, 2023
Gaza’s children are starving as war hampers food deliveries
RAFAH: Displaced children in southern Gaza craved chicken, but all their mother had left to feed the family for the day was a box of peas donated by a man who felt sorry for her when he saw her cry. Left homeless by Israel’s military offensive against Hamas, like most of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million, Tahany Nasr was in a camp in Rafah, focused on just one thing: how to find enough food and water for everyone to spend another day. She said her children had lost weight and felt dizzy because they weren’t eating enough. “I begged to
