Among the Muslims It is a tradition to sacrifice a sheep or a cow to celebrate the Eid Al Adhathe feast of sacrifice in Arabic, which took place this Friday. Part of the flesh usually donate to the poor as an act of charity. Then, the whole family gathers around a table full of sweets. Children receive new clothes as a gift. But, in the Gaza Stripthis eid to the adha there was no banquet. It was another day. A feast of reminders of absences: Of the people who can no longer sit at that table, how empty that is of food and how deprived it is of jams. From the ground, under the infernal heat multiplied by the plastic of the tents, there is neither charity nor meat, not even table.
More than three months ago than No fresh meat enters In Gaza. Almost all sheep, cows and goats raised in the territory are dead. Very few, but none, became the traditional roast of before. Abdalwahad Hamad He is a Palestinian humanitarian worker from Northern Gaza who has been displaced a dozen times. “Since March 2, the enclave has been under a Air, maritime and terrestrial blockade Totally paralyzing imposed in the territory, “this 29 -year -old tells El Periódic We are watched for us to continue starving“, he explains tired at the end of his infinite working day.
“The only phrase that we continue to listen to people on the ground is that they are not only killing us, we are allowed and watched so that we continue starving”
“Humanitarian aid is not reaching the besieged enclave, they are already 12 weeks without entry of humanitarian supplies“, Complaint. At the beginning of March, the Israeli authorities blocked the entry of all kinds of help or commercial goods. A few days later, they resumed the bombings on the Palestinian enclave after almost two months high the fire. Last week the international pressure and, above all, of his American ally forced Tel Aviv to allow the access of the strip assistance again. “Very few trucks have entered and then looted by local bandsbecause the Israelis are directed by dangerous roads, “says Hamad, from Deir El Balah, in the center of Gaza.
Gazatis displaced stores in Jan Yunis. / Abdel Kareem Hana / AP
Bombing campaign
In addition, violence has reached the aid distribution points of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundationsupported by Washington and Tel Aviv. More than 100 people have died For shots of the Israeli army in the vicinity of these centers in just one week. “I don’t trust this system at all,” says Kayed Hammad, a father displaced to the city of Gaza. “It is no longer a matter of opinion; in fact, it is a mortal To kill more people, they have practically given one more weapon to the soldiers of the occupation to kill more people every day, “he denounces through voice notes, between apologies for the delay in responding to the absence of connection.
“It is no longer a matter of opinion; in fact, [la Fundación Humanitaria de Gaza] It is a deadly trap to kill more people, they have practically given one more weapon to the soldiers of the occupation to kill more people every day “
Beyond the war that the bodies of the Gazatis, families to unknown levels – unknown levels – noted that it points out that 100% of the population suffers famine-, the traditional war, the one that kills with weapons, has not stopped. On the contrary, it only seems intensified. The Israeli bombing campaign continues throughout the enclave. “Air attacks or for all kinds of projectiles, those do not stop, have no limit, nor a specific time in which they take place,” Hammad explains. “They occur 24 hours a dayjust as I always say, so that they do not lose the habit of bombing“, says Ionic this Fixer and translator Gazatí, who lost her 24 -year -old son for one of those bombs.
“Taken to the limit”
In turn, Israel launched a new extensive land offensive “ Last Sunday, only two days after the US president Donald Trump conclude a tour of the Gulf countries. Apart from hunger, apart from the bombings, already part of the artillery fire, the Gazatis no longer have where to go. Since March, more than 436,000 people have been displaced. Forced displacement orders reach almost every corner of the Palestinian enclave. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) calculates that the 70% of Gaza It is now within the exclusion zones established along the borders of the enclave or in low areas Displacement orders by the military.
Palestinians load boxes and bags with food and humanitarian aid distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. / Abdel Kareem Hana / AP
“The families here have been plunged into a incessant displacement and loss cycleand have been taken to the limit, “says Hamad.” Some reside in improvised shelters, others on the Household debris While others literally live in the street, because the tents that entered Gaza months ago have a very short useful life, “denounces this humanitarian worker. 90% of the approximately two million inhabitants of Gaza have been forced to leave their homes and travel repeatedly. In the north, where Hammad denounces that it has not yet reached help, the situation is more critical, with 90% of households destroyed.
Hell in figures
Faced with Israel’s prohibition at the entrance of the foreign press in the Palestinian enclave, Gaza’s hell ends up explaining through the figures. More than 2,700 children under five years old In Gaza they have been diagnosed with acute malnutritionaccording to the United Nations, the triple that three months ago. 90% of the Gazatí population suffers lack of access to water. More than 700,000 women and girls suffer one “Silent menstrual emergency“In the absence of menstrual products. There are either fuel or medical supplies or electricity. The population of Gaza has reduced by about 160,000 inhabitants during the war. More than 54,670 have died and 125,530 have been injured. These numbers have probably increased while reading these lines.
But also Gaza is explained by these voices that emerge from the ruins. “We eat once a day buying what we can gold prices; A silly meal, with rice, cans or vegetables from some local orchards, can cost more than 100 euros a day“Hammad explains, who has to feed his whole family.” We have nothing, neither clothes, nor food, nor medications, nor in operational health services; What we have plenty is death and garbage“, he points out.” How can this happen, hung “Something of hope” Yes they have them.
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