“My kids are going to sleep hungry,” says the BBC Gazanas

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“Give me a little,” said Ishmael, 6-year-old as he was waiting for food in Gaza

As the crowds gathered at a point of distribution of food in North Gaza, six -year -old Ismail Abu Ode fights his way to the front.

“Give me a little,” he called.

His bowl was full of lentils, but as he went back, she was killed by his hands. He returned to his family’s tent and was crying.

Uncle, who had managed to take some food later, said some with Ismail.

The next day at the movement camp where he lives, located at a school in Gaza, no supplies of water or food arrive, and the people gathered there are left with empty bottles and buy. Ismail shouted again.

BBC has spent the last two days talking to people in Gaza, such as Israel Intensifies his military actions and lasts more than a 10-week common blockade for food, medical supplies and other help.

There are increasing warnings from the United Nations and others that the enclave is On the edge of hunger.

Ismail shouted after no food or water was delivered to the camp where he lives

The Israeli government insists that there is no “shortage” of food in Gaza and that “the real crisis is Hamas, robbery and sale of help.”

Government ministers have described the suspension of assistance As a “main pressure lever” To ensure a victory over Hamas and take out all the hostages. There are still 58 hostages in Gaza, up to 23 of which are thought to be alive.

Israel does not allow international journalists free access to Gaza, so our communication has been above telephone calls and messages on WhatsApp and through reliable Palestinian freelancers living in the territory.

Those who talked to the BBC described their struggle to find even one meal a day, with food kitchens being excluded because of the shortage and several markets in the markets. The elements that are still available are at high prices that they cannot afford, they said.

A man who runs one of the other food kitchens in Gaza said he works “day by day” to find food and butter. Another man we talked to said that the kitchen in which she had voluntarily closed herself 10 days ago when the deliveries expired, describing her as a “catastrophic feeling”.

Reuters people waiting to receive food prepared by a charity in Jabalia, GazaReuters

A 23-year-old woman living in North Gaza said “dizziness has become a constant feeling” as well as “a common weakness and fatigue of lack of food and medicine.”

31-year-old Adam Al-Batravi, who lived in the wealthy city of Al-Zahra, but is now displaced in central gas, said the hunger was “one of the most difficult parts of everyday life.”

He said that people should get “creative only to survive,” describing through WhatsApp messages how it will exceed the pasta and knead it in dough before cooking it on fire to create imitation bread – the main in the Palestinian diet.

“We figured out ways to cook and eat that we never imagined we would need us,” he said.

He added that one meal a day he ate recently was “enough to translate us during the day, but it is far from enough to meet our energy needs.”

A close -up photo of Adam

Half of Adam Al-Batravi’s family home in al-Zahra has been destroyed, he told the BBC

Elsewhere in Central Gaza, in the city of Deir Al-Balah, nurse Reva Mohsen said it was a fight to secure himself for his two young daughters, three and 19 months old.

She said she had stored diapers during the termination of the fire earlier this year, but that they would expire in a month.

Speaking of WhatsApp on Thursday, she said her daughters got used to the sounds of bombing that would ring through the apartment. “Sometimes I feel more frightened than them,” she wrote, adding that she would distract her children with coloring books and toys.

The next day, over the voice note, she said that an evacuation orders had been issued for her area before the Israeli blow hit a nearby building.

When she returned to her home to “clean the mess”, she found that the doors and windows had been blown up.

“Thank goodness I’m still alive with my girls,” she said.

Asked if she would stay in the apartment, she replied, “Where else will I go?”

In GAZA, medics described the effects of the blockade on medical supplies and said they no longer feel safe during work after Israeli strikes aimed at hospitals.

Nurse Randa Said said she worked at the European Hospital in Han Uninis When he was struck at an Israeli blow This week, describing it as a moment of “pure terror and helplessness.”

Israel has long accused Hamas of using hospitals as concealed bases and storing a weapon that the group denies.

The European Hospital is no longer working, but Randa said staff and patients moved to Nasar nearby hospital.

“Our patients are mothers, sons, daughters and siblings – just like us. We know deeply in our hearts that our duty should not end, especially now that they need us most,” she said.

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Images from the European Hospital in Khan Enis shows piles of ruins on the floor

Nasser staff and other Gaza hospitals told the BBC that the blockade means that they do not have basic supplies such as painkillers and gauze and had to close some services.

US have confirm that a new system for providing humanitarian aid For the Palestinians in gas through private companies, they are preparing, with the Israeli forces being designed to provide the perimeter of the centers. The United Nations criticized the plan, saying it seemed to be a “weapon”.

Back in Gaza, Ismail’s father said he was struggling with the fact that he could no longer provide his six children.

“My kids go to sleep hungry,” he said. “Sometimes I sit and cry as a young child if I can’t provide them with food.”

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