‘We’re being starved’: Dispatch from Gaza City as Israeli assault continues
Al Jazeera
‘I don’t write to engender sorrow, had sorrow moved people, we wouldn’t be where we are now,’ writes Mohammed Mhawish.
For us in Gaza City, enduring the daily struggles like staying safe, fighting hunger and protecting ourselves against the biting cold is a war in and of itself as Israel’s assault on Gaza grinds on past 120 days.
Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their homes at a time when that was all they had. Then after that came the loss of a simple place to shelter as Israel bombed them all: hospitals, schools, clinics, and any open space where civilians gathered.
The entire population of Gaza has been displaced. The entire population.
After our house was bombed, I was no longer just a witness to the thousands of people fleeing their homes to find safety wherever they could.
We went to the United Nations shelter in the north of Gaza, my family and I gathering whatever would help us survive and becoming displaced like our countrypeople.
