ince Israel launched its war on Gaza in October 2023, my family and I have remained near what was once our home in the north of the Strip.
Among the first regions cut off from aid and plunged into severe food shortages, we endured the initial painful period of starvation from November 2023 – just a month into the genocide – until a temporary truce in June 2024.
When the flour ran out, we resorted to baking bread from animal fodder and rancid white flour, just to survive.
We lived on what little we had saved. We searched the destroyed homes of neighbours and relatives who had fled, sometimes finding a few cans of peas, chickpeas, fava beans or some flour left behind.
But all of that ran out in the early months. The war has now dragged on for more than 665 days, and everything has been taken from us.
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