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   NefeshBarYochai wrote:   
   > Ahmad Abdulrahim, 38, strolled the remains of the markets in Gaza City   
   > with 150 Shekels in his pocket, the amount of money he used to feed   
   > his family of five for a week before the genocide. Today, that amount   
   > can hardly buy a single meal.   
      
   Teach them to shop around AND window shop.  This starvation treatment is   
   a war crime.  Not to mention.  Ants are herbivores.   
      
   > The markets, now little more than bombed-out remains, are empty of all   
   > basic needs, including vegetables, meat, and fruits. For the majority   
   > of people, such luxuries are unavailable except at unimaginable   
   > prices. Most vegetables, rare though they are, come from people’s   
   > gardens.   
   >   
   > All Ahmad could find were cleaning supplies and canned foods. Ahmad   
   > told Mondoweiss that due to his children’s long-term dependence on   
   > these foods, they’ve started to develop health problems. After a   
   > protracted search, Ahmad found some zucchini; he walked faster when he   
   > noticed the seller, who had placed them in a small pile on the ground   
   > on top of a plastic bag. When he asked about the price, he was   
   > surprised to know that one kilogram of zucchini cost 80 Shekels ($20).   
   > Before the war, it used to be 3 shekels per kilo (less than a dollar).   
   >   
   > Such was the price for most other vegetables that could be found. One   
   > kilo of green peppers cost 250 shekels ($66), where it used to be 5   
   > ($1.4). One kilo of cucumber and tomato cost 90-100 shekels ($23-$26),   
   > which used to be 2-3 shekels (53-80 cents).   
   >   
   > Ahmad said that as he walked back home, disappointed, he was dreading   
   > his family’s reaction when they found out that he spent almost half of   
   > their money on two cans of beans.   
   >   
   > “I’m starting to deal with my kids as adults,” he said. “I’m   
   telling   
   > them this is war, and our enemy wants us to starve. I’m telling them   
   > that we should be thankful that we have been able to survive so far. I   
   > promise them that when this war ends, I will bring them whatever they   
   > want.”   
   >   
   > The state of starvation in Gaza has not ended. In northern Gaza, it   
   > has dramatically increased, but in ways that are different from how it   
   > was at the war’s outset. Protracted periods of malnutrition and   
   > deprivation from vital nutrients are having a cumulative impact on   
   > Gaza’s population, especially for those who most need it, such as   
   > children and pregnant women.   
   >   
   > “Before this crisis, there was enough food in Gaza to feed the   
   > population,” WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said   
   > back in March. “Malnutrition was a rare occurrence. Now, people are   
   > dying, and many more are sick. Over a million people are expected to   
   > face catastrophic hunger unless significantly more food is allowed to   
   > enter Gaza.”   
   >   
   > Only 0.8% of children under the age of five were suffering from acute   
   > malnutrition before the war, the WHO also said. By February, that   
   > figure had jumped to 12.4% – 16.5%.   
   >   
   > Ever since those numbers were reported, Israel’s genocidal war has   
   > only worsened the systematic deprivation of food to the population.   
   > But Israeli propaganda would have us believe that there is no famine,   
   > and there is no Israeli policy of deliberate starvation. Many Israeli   
   > media outlets misleadingly focus on technical definitions of what   
   > constitutes a famine and dishonestly misquote passages from the UN’s   
   > ICP reports on conditions in Gaza.   
   >   
   > The reality on the ground tells an opposite story, one in which the   
   > systematic deprivation of Gaza’s population from sources of nutrition   
   > is leading to long-term consequences. Gaza health officials and   
   > medical workers have already observed it for weeks.   
   >   
   > Hussam Abu Safia, Director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, told Aljazeera   
   > that the specter of famine was once again sweeping northern Gaza,   
   > stressing that the lack of availability of foods with diverse   
   > nutritional values will have a long-term impact on the population.   
   > Since the start of the Israeli army’s second invasion of the   
   > Shuja’iyya neighborhood in Gaza City last week, access of residents in   
   > northern Gaza to food has only worsened.   
   >   
   > Abu Safia said that no basic materials have entered the northern Gaza   
   > Strip for weeks, leaving flour as the only available staple. This is   
   > far from sufficient to meet the nutritional needs of children, the   
   > elderly, and pregnant women, all of whom require fats and proteins,   
   > Abu Safia asserted.   
   >   
   > “Within 14 days, 214 children have arrived at the hospital showing   
   > signs of malnutrition,” Abu Safiya told Al Jazeera well before the   
   > second invasion of Shuja’iyya began. “Including over 50 cases of   
   > advanced malnutrition and 6 cases in critical condition in the   
   > intensive care unit.”   
   >   
   > “These children are living solely on fluid replacements, and we do not   
   > have any milk or special food for them, which puts their lives at   
   > risk,” he said.   
   >   
   > Eating tree leaves   
   >   
   > People in the north of Gaza can tell that this wave of hunger is the   
   > worst to visit the strip so far, leaving many wondering about their   
   > prospects for survival if these conditions do not change.   
   >   
   > Some residents of Gaza City have resorted to using tree leaves, such   
   > as mulberry leaves, to prepare dawali, a dish typically comprised of   
   > fragrant rice wrapped in grape leaves.   
   >   
   > “People are cooking weeds,” Mahmoud Issa, a local journalist and   
   > resident of Gaza City, told  Mondowiess shortly before the Shuja’iyya   
   > invasion. “They cook leaves in water and spices. Even using the water   
   > is risky, because there’s no power to run the desalination plants.”   
   >   
   > “Solar power is no longer available in Gaza either. Israeli drones   
   > have systematically targeted every solar panel on every roof across   
   > Gaza. They want people to lose hope and starve,” he continued.   
   >   
   > Issa explained that people believe expired canned foods, when made   
   > available in Gaza, are making their children sick. This has led some   
   > to try to avoid such foods for fear that they would not be able to get   
   > treatment for their kids should they fall ill, given that northern   
   > Gaza no longer has any health system to speak of.   
   >   
   > “Families know there is no way to treat their children if they get   
   > poisoned, so they are abandoning canned foods,” he said.   
   >   
   > But even though cases of food poisoning due to the consumption of   
   > expired food products have been reported in Gaza, reports are also   
   > emerging of additional cases of food poisoning from forage eating.   
   >   
      
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