“I easily received help distributed by the UN,” said ABIR SAFI, a displaced person from the Zeitoun district of Gaza City, UN News. “Now we don’t get anything. I risk my life by going to the crossing of Zikim and returning with an empty bag. All I want is to go back to my children with food. ”
Ms. Safi said that she had never imagined that her children would become a fatal adventure. After losing her husband during the war, she found herself alone, faced with the responsibility of supporting her family in the midst of humanitarian conditions.
It was one of the thousands of citizens who gathered along Rashid Street in the north of Gaza, which links the crossing of Zikim north of Gaza, in the hope of receiving humanitarian aid.
A cart drawn on horseback carries the body by more than seven Palestinians killed while trying to reach help.
“Balle on my head”
Our correspondent witnessed the arrival of thousands of Palestinians returning from a trip in search of food supplies. Thousands of emaciated bodies – men, women and children – have been taken in a scene that has become a daily event. Everyone runs in search of a few aid trucks that reach northern Gaza.
The United Nations has the capacity and resources necessary to distribute the aid in a safe and worthy manner to all those who need it in the Gaza Strip. The organization continues to request the lifting of the restrictions imposed by the Israeli authorities on the entry and distribution of assistance to Gaza.
The danger lies not only in congestion and chaos, but also in death that hides around everyone. Fayza al-Turmisi, a displaced person from Shuja’iyya, described the horrible scene along rue Rashid in the north of Gaza.
“They fire us of shells and bullets here. We are forced to lie on the ground. I hide from more than 200 men and the bullets fly on my head. If you raise your head, you are struck. If you stay on the ground, the balls fall around you. ”
A young Gazan was injured while he was trying to get help.
Between mourning and hunger
Mohammed Mudeiris, seven -year -old, said that he had lost his father in an air strike just the day before. He does not have the luxury of mourning for his father because he is now the only family support for his brothers and sisters.
By walking through the dense crowd, he extends his small hand, begging that a handful of flour to bring back to his brothers and sisters.
“I am the eldest of my brothers and sisters,” he said. “My father was killed in an air strike yesterday. I try to ask someone to give me a plate of flour or a meal of the help that has arrived today. ”
Mohammed Mudeiris, a child who lost his father in an Israeli air strike, coming to get food for his brothers and sisters of aid trucks arriving via the crossing of Zikim.
“I risk my life to bring food to my children”
The food race is not limited to men. Women are forced to take this risk, motivated by the responsibilities of maternity and the needs of their children.
“I throw myself in danger to bring food for my children,” said Asma Masoud, who was moved from northern Gaza.
“We never get our right part of help,” she said. “My husband is paralyzed, and there are widows and women like me who cannot provide food for their children.”
Stressing that some young people take the help and sell it at exorbitant prices that she cannot afford to buy, Ms. Masoud called the world to ensure “a fair distribution mechanism and to allow UNRWA [the UN agency for Palestine refugees] and international organizations to do so ”.
The aid must be distributed by SMS so that each person in need receives their share, as was the previous case, she said.
“But now, only a few people take advantage and sell help,” she said. “We cannot tolerate this. It is an injustice. »»
Asma Masoud, a woman displaced from the north of Gaza, returning from a search for food.
‘I don’t know how I’m going to feed my children’ ‘
Ms. Sadi agreed with Ms. Masoud, complaining that “the beneficiaries are now largely thieves”.
“I have lost a lot of weight and all my health has disappeared,” said Safi. “I don’t know how I’m going to feed my children. I want to receive help with dignity. The help came by the United Nations, and I could easily go and receive it, but now I do not receive anything. »»
I want to receive help with dignity.
This chaotic system leaves widows, women, the elderly and many other complex humanitarian cases, such as Maqboula Adas, who supports her injured husband and her son who has a broken leg.
“My husband is injured and cannot move,” she said. “My eldest son has a broken leg, and I also have three daughters. No one supports us except God. Every day, I will try to get flour. If it was not for that, they would have died of hunger. ”
Maqboula Adas, a woman moved by Shuja’iyya.
The carts bear corpses
At the height of this tragedy, emerging macabre scenes. Instead of carrying bags of flour, a cart pulled by horses transports the bodies of at least seven Palestinians who were killed while they were trying to get help.
While some young men wore bags of flour on their backs, the ambulances bring the wounded and the dead in the northern regions. The realization of food aid has a high price.
A young man was injured in the head and the face as he tried to collect aid.
“I came to collect aid, but today it was not my day,” he said. “I will come back despite my injury, and I hope God will provide me next time.”
Thousands of Palestinians in search of aid from the crossing of Israeli Zikim in northern Gaza.
Risk of famine
Gaza faces a serious risk of famine, with indicators of food consumption and nutrition at their worst levels since the start of the current conflict, according to a warning issued by the integrated classification of the food security phase (IPC).
At least 147 deaths due to hunger and malnutrition were reported, including 88 children. More than 28,000 cases of severe acute malnutrition have been recorded in children, according to reports from the World Health Organization and World Food Program.
Despite the promises to facilitate the flow of help, the restrictions on the entrance to food and fuel, as well as ongoing attacks near level passages, prevented supplies from reaching people in need. In addition, the chaotic distribution of aid within Gaza has further complicated the situation and placed civilian civilians.
The United Nations Human Rights Office (Ohchr) documented the deaths of hundreds of people who try to access help in the middle of the current shots and bombing near the road truck roads and military distribution points.
ABIR SAFI, a moved woman from the Al-Zaytoun district.
“If I am killed, who will take care of my children?”
In the middle of this chaos, the widow Enaam Siam, mother of six, tells her fight for food.
“I am a widow and mother of six orphaned children, one of whom is injured,” she said. “Every day, I go out in the middle of death to bring them food. I see the dead and the wounded. ”
She asked why help was no longer delivered to warehouses and distributed by SMS.
“If I am killed, who will take care of my children?” There are thousands of women in a similar situation. We want security, peace and a fair system that guarantees that help reaches those who need it. ”
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