Palestine, Israeli blockade of Gaza has lasted two months with no help for the region

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*People living in Gaza have has to become creative in order to feed their children *Israeli govt. is deliberately starving thousands of children in Gaza

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00:00In Palestine, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is worsening as the days go by.

00:04Charities are facing a shortage of resources, making the situation more complicated for families and displaced people.

00:10In the coastal enclave, the soup kitchens are currently the main source of food for the Strip's 2.3 million inhabitants.

00:17But dozens of them have closed their doors because the 10-week Israeli blockade of the territory

00:21has prevented aid groups from distributing food parcels and emptied supply markets.

00:27In this regard, daily scenes of desperation are played out in Gaza with hundreds waving their pots and plates in the air.

00:34Children, women and men crowd around communal cooking stations, making for a lugar full of watered bean soup.

00:46It is so hard. There is no open border crossing. There is no flour. There is no food, no drink.

00:52When we come here to the soup kitchen, we end up waiting in line for four or five hours in the sun.

00:56It's exhausting, and we end up inhaling smoke from the cooking gas that just blinds us.

01:01In the end, we walk away with nothing. There is not enough for everybody.

01:04We scramble to get here and in the end we get nothing.

01:07If we're lucky we get one pot, enough for the little ones.

01:09We give them lunch and that is all. It's like that every day.

01:15After the border closure, now almost 70 days ago, nothing has entered.

01:21Not even a drop of water because of the occupation's policy of starving the people here.

01:26Hunger. Hunger has become the norm. It has become the usual. Everyone is feeling it.

01:36In April, the World Food Programme said its food stocks in Gaza had run out under Israel's blockade,

01:42ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the Strip.

01:45As floor became scarce or unaffordable for the majority of Palestinians,

01:50many have resorted to grinding pasta beans or lentils to produce duff and bake bread.

01:55Each child has been begging his family to eat, so the family turned to things they were not used to before.

02:06We did not grin these things before. Not beans or lentils nor anything else.

02:10Today, in light of the starvation crisis and the lack of even lentils and beans,

02:15people have begun to accept very strange things.

02:17In the midst of these critical living conditions,

02:24the Palestinian people have had to become creative in order to feed their children.

02:28Meanwhile, the Israeli government continues its crusade of extermination in the region.

02:33We have been soaking pasta overnight, then draining it and making flour from it.

02:42Now the pasta is run out. This was two weeks ago. The pasta has run out.

02:47Now we have come to grind the lentils, to see how the lentils will be.

02:50We do not know how things will be. What is left of this?

02:53There is nothing to grind, there is nothing to eat.

02:56The children wish for a tomato, a cucumber and an onion.

03:03Since the revival of the conflict and tensions in the region on October 7, 2023,

03:10more than 50 zero-Palestinian citizens have lost their lives.

03:14Only a fraction of those who will continue to die in the face of the actions of the Israeli government,

03:19which is deliberately starving thousands of children in Gaza today with total impunity.

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