FOOD RUNNING OUT AT GAZA CAMP
We are featuring just one of the many articles currently circulating about the desperate situation in Gaza.
Abu Gibril kept the radical decision to slaughter his horses to himself, boiling the meat with rice, and giving it to his unwitting family and neighbours.
Palestinian Territories: At the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, Abu Gibril was so desperate for food to feed his family that he slaughtered two of his horses.
“We had no other choice but to slaughter the horses to feed the children. Hunger is killing us,” he told AFP.
Jabalia was the biggest camp in the Palestinian territories before the war, which began after Hamas fighters attacked southern Israel on October 7, leaving about 1,160 dead, based on Israeli figures.
Now food is running out, with aid agencies unable to get into the area because of the bombing — and the frenzied looting of the few trucks that try to get through.
The World Food Programme last week said its teams reported “unprecedented levels of desperation” while the United Nations warned that 2.2 million people were on the brink of famine.
On Friday, the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said a two-month-old baby died of malnutrition in hospital in Gaza City, seven kilometres (just over four miles) away from Jabalia.
The UN children’s agency UNICEF has warned that the alarming lack of food, surging malnutrition and disease could lead to an “explosion” in child deaths in Gaza.
One in six children aged under two in Gaza was acutely malnourished, it estimated on February 19.
Residents have taken to eating scavenged scraps of rotten corn, animal fodder unfit for human consumption and even leaves to try to stave off the growing hunger pangs.
“There is no food, no wheat, no drinking water,” said one woman.
“We have started begging neighbours for money. We don’t have one shekel at home. We knock on doors and no one is giving us money.”
Despite the necessity, he said he was still wary of their reaction. “No one knows they were in fact eating a horse.”
There are many organisations raising funds to help those in Gaza, including UNICEF.
Please, if you can, donate to a relief organisation of your choice.
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We have the acreage to take on more horses as financial support allows.
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