Residents and official agencies warn of famine in Gaza as displaced civilians and health workers go hungry so their children can eat what little is available.
Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, 38, says sleep is all that can distract her children from the aching hunger gnawing at their bellies. These days, the mother-of-seven finds herself begging for food on the mud-caked streets of Rafah, in southern Gaza . She tries to feed her kids at least once a day, she says, while tending to her husband, a cancer and diabetes patient. Famine is taking hold of Gaza , residents and official agencies warn.
"They are weak now, they always have diarrhea, their faces are yellow," El Jamara, whose family was displaced from northern Gaza, told CNN on January 9. As Gaza spirals toward full-scale famine, displaced civilians and health workers told CNN they go hungry so their children can eat what little is available. If Palestinians find water, it is likely undrinkable. When relief trucks trickle into the strip, people clamber over each other to grab aid. Children living on the streets, after being forced from their homes by Israel's bombardment, cry and fight over stale bread
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