Videoclip shows starving people eating bread for the first time in months. They had come from north Gaza to Wadi Gazi, just to the south of the Strip as reported by the Quds News Network.
“When did you out set out for here from the north,” one anonymous voice asked a group of people of mostly women and young children.
“We started out in the morning, till we got here,” one old man said.
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“God be with you,” said the voice and quickly changing his tune. “Bring more bread, bring more bread,” he shouted, asking the group, “how is the situation [up there]?”
“The situation is starvation, starvation, starvation,” the old man kept saying. He was echoing what everybody is saying that the northern region of Gaza is being deliberately starved by the Israeli army for months with no aid trucks allowed to enter the region.
The voice told an old woman to quench her thirst. “What is wrong,” the voiced added, “please tell me?”. He already knew there was neither food nor water up north in places like Gaza City, Atwam, Jabalia, Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoon.
He then asked “how many days since this lady has eaten bread?”
“About 20 days….” The old man replied.
“More,” she replied weakly but “it would have been better, if we hadn’t,” she added in reference to the other starving people she left behind.
Despite Israeli instructions to move down south, about 700,000 stayed in the north but the Israeli army is blocking aid trucks from reaching them and is starving them in the process.
“Why are you, tearful,” the voice then asked.
“From the situation we are in…” replied the old man.
Another voice in the background says bring more bread.
Dr Marwan Asmar is a journalist from Amman, Jordan
