The attacks on aid seekers continue, more are left severely wounded, paralyzed and dead just trying to find food for their families.
It has almost been abundantly clear that this was meant to bring about the deliberate starvation of Gaza, the blockade never ended, but aid only trickled in through these death zones. Why do all the aid points operate in places under evacuation orders?
People are starving, malnutrition rates are going up at an alarming rate. And the number of people killed has gone up to 700+ people. I don't want to believe it, but here we are. And the death toll will only rise and rise, all under the eyes of the world, but not a finger is being lifted to stop it. It feels like a small amount of people even know or care about it.
The relentless bombing campaign on civilians is intensifying. Hundreds have been killed in the past days, hundreds. Even on a café, with nobody but civilians, including children, in a so-called safe zone, but nothing has been done about it. No punishments, hardly even mentioned.
“The tragedy is that this is again a conservative reading of casualties who were at these distribution points, waiting for food parcels,” Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said of the ministry’s latest figures.
Reporting from Gaza City, Mahmoud said the attacks on aid seekers come as Palestinian families are desperate to feed their families amid dire shortages caused by Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
“People are going hungry. People are rationing supplies. A lot of families are not eating. Mothers here skip meals in order to provide for their children,” he said.
“I was forced to go to the aid distribution centre simply because my kids had not eaten for three days in a row,” Majid Abu Laban, a Palestinian man who was wounded in an attack at a GHF site, told Al Jazeera.
“We try to fool our children by all means, but they are starving,” Abu Laban said.
“So I decided to risk my life and head to [an aid distribution point] at Netzarim,” he said, referring to an Israeli military-established corridor south of Gaza City.
“I took the road at midnight hoping to get some food. As crowds rushed in, Israeli forces fired artillery shells at us. In the chaos, everyone was just trying to survive.”
So please, I urge you, keep sharing this petition, signing on whatever email address you have or sending to everyone you know. I have prepared template emails, and email addresses to contact, all in specific regards to this petition. Please, it will only take a few moments. Send some emails or share this Google doc. The people of Gaza are starving, and undergoing horror and the world is silent. Hopefully through signing this petition and sending emails, we can apply pressure for them to act.
And as for fundraisers, please support Enas and her children, Mohammed and Hala. Enas is doing everything she possibly can to keep her children alive. And on top of that, she was unfortunately widowed, when her husband was killed by the occupation.
Now, Hala is fighting for her life in the understaffed and undersupplied Nasser Hospital, she is malnourished and ill, she needs healthy food, clean water and medicine. These children have hardly eaten. Please, donate anything you can. 14% of the goal has been raised.
Please also donate to Abdulkarim's family, so that he can receive much needed surgery and can recover. A 12 year old boy in Gaza, with a life and dreams ahead of him, he was hit by a treacherous bullet, what was his crime? He needs this medical treatment to regain his eyesight and semblance of a normal life back, he is experiencing all of this while living in a tent.
For this fundraiser, donations are extremely slow, days apart and very little. They haven't even raised $1,300. Please support them by any means possible. They cannot bear the cost of medical treatment alone. Your participation lights a dark path.