DISPATCH
Children eat rotten food, adults hunt cats: famine is coming for Gaza
Bombing has displaced more than a million in Gaza — but none of them are safe from hunger
Palestinians in Rafah are desperate for food but aid is drying up
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The Sunday Times
In the wasteland of al-Mawasi encampment in Gaza, hunger is everywhere. It is in the handfuls of dirty flour that mothers try to knead to make bread for their children. It is in the fires, stoked with plastic bottles, which produce nothing but choking black smoke. It is in the children who no longer play but lie around, exhausted. It is in food that is rotten and makes you sick but is eaten just the same. It is in Camellia Subeh’s breast, which no longer produces milk for her baby son.
“My other sons keep saying, ‘Mum, I’m dizzy, I have a headache,” said the mother of five, sitting outside a shelter she built on the mud from scraps of plastic and wood.
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