DEIR AL-BALAH, The Gaza Strip — Yasmin Eid coughs and covers her face, cooking a small pot of lentils over a fire fed with twigs and scrap paper in the tent she shares with her husband and four young daughters in the Gaza Strip.
It was their only meal Wednesday — it was all they could afford.'My girls suck on their thumbs because of how hungry they are, and I pat their backs until they sleep,' she said.After being displaced five times, the Eids reside in central Gaza , where aid groups have relatively more access than in the north, which has been largely isolated and heavily destroyed since Israel began waging a renewed offensive against the militant group Hamas in early October.
It can feed about half of the 1,000 families who line up each day.The sharp decline in aid, and a U.S. ultimatumIsrael says it places no limits on the amount of aid entering Gaza and has announced a number of measures it says are aimed at increasing the flow in recent weeks, including the opening of a new crossing. It blames U.N. agencies for not retrieving it, pointing to hundreds of truckloads languishing on the Gaza side of the border.
In Gaza Are Eating Just Once Day As Hunger Spreads Amid Aid Issues
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