A displaced nation suffering from hunger

“We have become bones”laments Fatma al Madani, one of the many mothers in Gaza who does not know how to feed her children, who cry all night on empty stomachs.

Theirs is one of many families displaced by the war in the Palestinian Strip, which They are surviving as best they can in the face of a famine that the United Nations has described as a humanitarian “catastrophe”.

“The child screams all night because he is hungry,” says this womandisplaced with her family to Rafah, the southernmost part of the coastal enclave.

A tent in which 10 people are crammed It became their unsafe home, where “they don’t even have bread to eat”.

“Everyone is hungry, everyone. “I have a kidney disease and I need special food, but I can’t find anything,” condemns this mother because, in addition to food, there is a lack of medicine, hygiene and water.

And what little you can find to put in your mouth “is all expensive, you can’t buy anything”, since prices have skyrocketed due to shortages.

“We can’t even make a piece of bread in this situation, in the middle of sand and tents,” he adds, since humanitarian aid hardly arrives.

“If you see something, it’s expensive, you look at it, but you can’t buy it”says this woman.

Tag Ahmed, another of the hundreds of thousands of exiles, who are estimated to be close to 1.9 million, or 85 percent of Gaza’s population, who had to leave their homes, is categorical: “We live in poverty, in misery”.

To the extent that they have to limit the little bread they get“For it not to end, it’s exhausting,” he said.

About 40 people, four familiess, sharing the tent as much as they can, the men sleeping outside, despite the cold.

The little they get They cook it in a pot on a makeshift kitchensome bricks among those burning wood.

Some vegetables and some eggsnext to those with a baby who cries non-stop, he can be seen in one of the tents in the refugee camp, while outside some children are playing in the sand, not all of them wearing shoes.

In the second, some women prepare something to deceive the stomachbased on flour and water.

Rudab Abunazi, another exile, suffers the same: some 30 people crammed into a small space. “We suffer a lot”, something that, apart from physically, “affects mentally as well”, he declared.

you suffer from eczema (atopic dermatitis), His condition “has worsened because of the conditions we live in here”where “everything is difficult, very difficult”.

“Living conditions are already unbearableprices have doubled”, she says: “Everyone has their own story, suffering.”

Half of the population in the Gaza Strip is dying of hunger and nine out of 10 people do not eat enough, recently warned the Deputy Executive Director of the UN World Food Program (WFP), Carl Skau.

Several areas of Gaza have reached the highest level, the “catastrophe” level, on the United Nations food insecurity scale, due to famine in the north and south of the Palestinian Stripan extreme situation that has not happened since humanitarian crises like those in Somalia or Ethiopia.