Plant seeds among the rubble – how the Palestinians are desperately trying to avoid famine and famine
Nabil Elooh walks between white tarp tents and mounds of rubble in Gaza City, carefully checking the plants of his small garden, where arugula germs and other greens stand up.
He uses basic tools to book on the floor and take care of leafy vegetables that will be meals for him in the coming days.
“A tomato or eggplant helps us to endure and attenuate hunger at the time when everything is expensive,” said Elooh, noting that it is his fifteenth trip since the start of the war.
He obtained his gardening supplies from a group called Thamra, an organization that distributes seeds and food they cultivate in a makeshift greenhouse, also in Gaza City.
While a hunger instructor supported by the UN confirmed that the famine struck Gaza, a group called Thamra plants fruits and vegetables to preserve the earth and fight famine. It is a journalistic collaboration of the public service media that are members of the European Union of Broadcasting (EBU), including CBC News.
Leena Al Madhoun says that she started Thamra – the Arabic word for fruit – to fight against famine and help provide people with food rather than waiting for borders to open. But above all, she says that she was inspired by the message that the act of working the ground sends in the middle of the war, a blockade and a famine.
“We mean to the world and the occupants:” We are not leaving here. It is our land, we will plant it and we will stay here. “”
From the desperate plantation of seeds among the rubble, desperate mothers to feed their children, to doctors who struggle with hunger pain during their rounds, famine in Gaza weighs on all aspects of life. Now, members of the European Union of Broadcasting – as well as their journalists on the ground in Gaza – unite to document how Palestinians find it difficult to survive famine and how others work to find solutions.
Foreign journalists, whose CBC, were not allowed to enter Gaza in two years.
The integrated classification of the food security phase, which monitors hunger levels, warned that the crisis in parts of Gaza has reached the most serious level. Israel rejected the report.
Desperate parents to feed children
The classification of the integrated food security phase supported by the UN (IPC) published a report last week saying that the famine conditions now exist in Gaza City. He concluded that constantly, famine spread to the rest of the enclave at the end of September. Israel has rejected their conclusions, saying that measures had been taken to increase the amount of assistance entering Gaza in recent weeks.
Israel The help block started in early MarchAnd although breaks in the fighting began last month to allow food and humanitarian aid to enter the enclave, the Israeli army announced on Friday that it suspended these breaks to Gaza City to start its planned offensive in the region.
Friday, the Gaza Ministry of Health said that 322 people died due to severe malnutrition and famine, including 121 children.
Maryam Dawas, 9, shouts in agony on her bed at the Al-Rrandi hospital in Gaza City. The little girl looks fragile, her skin stretched out her protruding bones as she continues to wiggle with her mother by her side.
“I bored to eat, I feel tired and hungry,” said Maryam. “I’m afraid of rockets and war and I’m dying.”
She is one of the hundreds of children suffering from serious malnutrition in Gaza. Even in the hospital, the food they get is limited. A A postponement The publication of August 7 concluded that malnutrition rates in the enclave have reached “the highest levels to date”.
Maryam’s mother Mudalla feeds her the little food they have – a little puree and rice chicken today – to maintain her health in case they are ordered to leave Gaza City. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed earlier in August than his country plans to “take control” of the parts of Gaza Citythat his troops have not been held since the start of the war.
“I force her to drink so that she can remain a little healthy,” said Mudalla. “If we pass, she can’t walk or run.”
In addition to his work in the trauma and surgery service at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, Dr. Souleiman Iyad al-Derbi does what he can take care of the injured Palestinians of the Al-Mawasi makeshift camp. It is a journalistic collaboration of the public service media that are members of the European Union of Broadcasting (EBU), including CBC News.
Take care of the injured on an empty stomach
Dr. Souleiman Iyad al-Derbi works in the department of trauma and surgery at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Rafah’s resident also took care of his brothers and sisters after his parents were killed in an air strike at the start of the war.
Al-Derbi, 30, says that he has trouble standing during his tours on the hospital because of his hunger, but he must continue to work so that he can support his family and help the sick and the injured.
“We feel a lot of pain and we feel exhausted and extremely tired during operations or in any department because of malnutrition,” he said.
When he did his quarter of work in the hospital, Al-Derbi returns to the Khan Younis camp where he lives, but his work is still not finished. He also tours here, checking people who have left the hospital but who can still have injuries.
That day, he took care of the injuries of a young boy whose leg was amputated. The doctor encourages the boy to cross the pain as he cleans the injury and winds him quickly. Soon, his cries fade and his smile reappears.
For an exhausted al-de-rose, it should be sufficient.
“I want one thing: the end of the war,” he said. “There is no more energy left.”
It is a journalistic collaboration of the public service media who are members of the European Union of Radiation (EBU). Their journalists filmed these stories on the ground in the Gaza Strip in August. Contributive organizations include: CBC (Canada), RTBF (Belgium), EPTV (Algeria), Nos (Netherlands), RTVE (Spain) RSI (Switzerland) and RTS (Switzerland).
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