A Cry from Gaza: Israel Is Using Hunger as a Weapon My name is Ahmed, and I’m from Gaza. I write these words while fighting hunger not to ask for anything for myself, but to let the world hear the cry of a people being slowly exterminated, starved on purpose, and denied even the most basic means of survival.
For over four months now, since the brutal assault on Gaza resumed, Israel has escalated a deliberate and systematic policy of starvation against us. Food, medicine, and clean water are blocked. Yet Israel tells the world it is allowing “humanitarian aid” into Gaza.
The truth is very different.
At best, only 10 trucks enter every two days. Sometimes, none at all. But our real daily need is at least 600 trucks of food and essential supplies. Imagine the difference. And even when aid is allowed in, it is often dumped in dangerous, exposed areas near the border, where desperate people risk their lives to reach it. Almost every time, it ends in a new massacre of the hungry. The goal is clear: to break our will by starving us.
We are now living through a nightmare that cannot be imagined:
Imagine a family of six needing at least $100 every day just to get enough food to stop the hunger. People eat small amounts of vegetables or beans if they’re lucky, each person gets two pieces of bread a day. Unemployment is over 95%. There are no jobs, no income, no savings. Homes, businesses, and everything people owned are destroyed. And the prices are insane:
1 kilogram of tomatoes or cucumbers costs $30. 1 kilogram of flour costs $65 enough to make just 12 pieces of bread. On top of that, there are over 40% in extra fees. And yes, we drink more water than our bodies need not out of thirst, but to trick our stomachs into feeling full. We go to bed every night with empty stomachs, with nothing but patience and pain to carry us through.
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And here's a bit more on Amjad from people in touch with him: Amjad has twelve members of his family he supports. So far he and I have raised enough funds that he hasn’t needed to go to the GHF “aid stations” to get indiscriminately murdered by a US mercenary psycho for two weeks now. He has sent me videos of he and others pinned down in an open space, in the bright afternoon, by gunfire.
Alice Cappelle
Hey everyone! I have two fundraising efforts and a message to share with you. The fundraisers are meant to help support two families in Gaza, Ahmed's family and Amjad's family.
Here are the links, please donate to both if you can:
chuffed.org/project/130545-stand-with-ahmeeds-fami…
chuffed.org/project/142254-urgent-appeal-to-save-o…
Here's a message from Ahmed:
A Cry from Gaza: Israel Is Using Hunger as a Weapon
My name is Ahmed, and I’m from Gaza. I write these words while fighting hunger not to ask for anything for myself, but to let the world hear the cry of a people being slowly exterminated, starved on purpose, and denied even the most basic means of survival.
For over four months now, since the brutal assault on Gaza resumed, Israel has escalated a deliberate and systematic policy of starvation against us. Food, medicine, and clean water are blocked. Yet Israel tells the world it is allowing “humanitarian aid” into Gaza.
The truth is very different.
At best, only 10 trucks enter every two days. Sometimes, none at all. But our real daily need is at least 600 trucks of food and essential supplies. Imagine the difference. And even when aid is allowed in, it is often dumped in dangerous, exposed areas near the border, where desperate people risk their lives to reach it. Almost every time, it ends in a new massacre of the hungry. The goal is clear: to break our will by starving us.
We are now living through a nightmare that cannot be imagined:
Imagine a family of six needing at least $100 every day just to get enough food to stop the hunger.
People eat small amounts of vegetables or beans if they’re lucky, each person gets two pieces of bread a day.
Unemployment is over 95%. There are no jobs, no income, no savings. Homes, businesses, and everything people owned are destroyed.
And the prices are insane:
1 kilogram of tomatoes or cucumbers costs $30.
1 kilogram of flour costs $65 enough to make just 12 pieces of bread.
On top of that, there are over 40% in extra fees.
And yes, we drink more water than our bodies need not out of thirst, but to trick our stomachs into feeling full. We go to bed every night with empty stomachs, with nothing but patience and pain to carry us through.
____________
And here's a bit more on Amjad from people in touch with him:
Amjad has twelve members of his family he supports. So far he and I have raised enough funds that he hasn’t needed to go to the GHF “aid stations” to get indiscriminately murdered by a US mercenary psycho for two weeks now. He has sent me videos of he and others pinned down in an open space, in the bright afternoon, by gunfire.
Please help if you can!!
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