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As the crowds gathered at the food distribution point in northern Gaza, Six -year -old Ismail Abu Odech fought to the front.
“Give me,” he called.
His bowl was filled with lentils, but when he returned back, she was knocked out of his hands. He returned to the tent of his family.
The uncle, who managed to get food later shared with Ismail.
The next day, the movement of water and food, where it lives, was located at the Gaza States school, and people gathered with empty bottles and bowls. Ismail shouted again.
BBC spent the last two days talking to people across the gas like Israel increases its hostilities And continues more than 10 weeks overall food blockade, medical materials and other assistance.
There are warnings of the United Nations and others that the enclave is On the verge of hunger.
The Israeli government insists that there is a “lack of” food and that “a real crisis is a robbery and sale of Hamas.”
Government ministers described the cessation of assistance as the “main pressure lever” To ensure the victory over Hamas and get all hostages. The gas still has 58 hostages, up to 23 of which are allegedly alive.
Israel does not allow international journalists free access to gas, so our communication has overcome phone calls and reports WhatsApp, as well as through reliable Palestinian freelancers living in the territory.
Those who talked to the BBC described their struggle to find even one meal a day, and the food kitchens closed from the lack and few items in the markets. According to them, items that are still available have highly inflated prices that they cannot afford.
A man who manages one of the other food kitchens said he was working “day by day” to find food and oil. Another man we talked to, said that the kitchen he voluntarily closed, closed 10 days ago when deliveries ended, describing it as a “catastrophic feeling”.
One 23-year-old woman who lives in Northern Gas said that “dizziness was a constant feeling” as well as “general weakness and fatigue from lack of food and medicines”.
A 31-year-old Adcham al-Batravi, who lived in the wealthy city of Al-Zhra, but was now moved to the central gas, said the hunger was “one of the most difficult parts of everyday life.”
He said that people had to get “creativity to survive”, describing WhatsApp messages as it would overcome pasta and knead it into the dough before cooking it on fire to create a bread imitation in the Palestinian diet.
“We have invented ways of cooking and food that we never imagined what we needed,” he said.
He added that one meal he ate recently was “just enough to move us through a day, but it’s not enough to meet our energy needs.”
Elsewhere in the Central Gaza, in the city of Deir al-Bala, the Nurse Revao Mohsen stated that it was a struggle to provide her two young daughters between the ages of three and 19 months.
She said she was signed earlier this year, but it ended a month later.
Speaking over WhatsApp Thursday, she said her daughters grew to the sounds of bombing that would call the apartment. “Sometimes I feel more afraid than they are,” she wrote, adding that she would distract her children with coloring and toys.
The next day, through the voice note, she said that for her area, orders for evacuation were issued before the Israeli strike hit the neighboring building.
When she returned home to “clean the porridge”, she found that the door and windows were blown up.
“Thank God I’m still alive with my girls,” she said.
Asked if she would remain in the apartment, she replied, “Where else will I go?”
In Gaza, doctors described the influence of the blockade on medical materials and stated that they no longer feel safe at work after Israeli strikes aimed at hospitals.
A nurse Rand Said said she works at a European Hospital in Han UNIS If it was hit in an Israeli strike This week, describing this as a moment of “pure terror and helplessness”.
Israel has long accused Hamas of using hospitals as secret bases and storage of weapons that the group denied.
The European Hospital is no longer working, but Randa said the staff and patients moved to a nearby Nasser hospital.
“Our patients are mothers, sons, daughters and siblings – just like us. We know deeply in our hearts that our duty should not end, especially now that we need most,” she said.
Nasser staff and other Hospitals in Gaza reported the BBC that the blockade meant that they lacked basic materials such as painkillers and gauze, and had to close some services.
In the US is there confirmed that a new system of humanitarian assistance For Palestinians, gas through private companies is being prepared, and Israeli forces will provide the perimeters of the centers. The United Nations criticized the plan, stating that it was “weapons”.
Returning to the gas -So, his father Ismail said he fought, and would no longer be able to provide six children.
“My children go to bed hungry,” he said. “Sometimes I sit and cry like a young child when I can’t provide their food.”