Al-Quds monitors the conditions of the starving and listens to their testimonies and the indescribable suffering they endure.

Gazans are falling to their deaths in the streets, a scene that has become a daily occurrence due to the famine that has swept the Gaza Strip for five months, resulting from the war of extermination waged by the Israeli occupation army since October 2023.

Despite distress calls issued by prestigious international organizations such as the United Nations, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the World Food Program, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and Doctors Without Borders, the occupation continues its military escalation and siege of the Gaza Strip, on the one hand, and its distortion of reality and beautification of the genocide, on the other.

The Gaza Strip's Ministry of Health announced that 20 people had died of starvation in the past 48 hours alone, warning that what is happening in Gaza is a systematic Israeli starvation policy that has so far resulted in 86 deaths from starvation, including 76 children. These numbers are likely to rise given the lack of therapeutic nutrition and the ongoing blockade.

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini commented in a press statement, commenting on the worsening famine in Gaza, that no one in Gaza is safe; even caregivers need care. Doctors, nurses, journalists, and humanitarian workers are suffering from hunger.

"Many are now fainting from hunger and exhaustion while carrying out their duties, such as reporting atrocities or alleviating suffering," Lazzarini added. "At the same time, the search for food has become as deadly as the bombing, with more than 1,000 starving people reported killed since the end of May."

Gaza children eat from the garbage!

One of the heartbreaking scenes that spread across social media was a video of starving children in Gaza searching for food. What was even more shocking was the way they searched through piles of garbage. Another scene showed a man "eating" from garbage bags on a street.

Activist Mohammed Harzallah said that these scenes were among the most difficult of the genocidal war. No one could have imagined that our children were eating from the garbage in streets overflowing with sewage and waste, beneath piles of ash and the stench of gunpowder.

In an interview with Al-Quds, Harzallah pointed out that more than a billion Muslims, including 22 Arab countries, were afraid of one coward named Benjamin Netanyahu, and refused to feed two million hungry people in a small geographical area. He added, "This surrender and subservience that we see in the eyes of Arab leaders will one day backfire on them, and the tables are turning," he said.

The children's screams did not find "Ibn Al-Khattab"

Ms. Suham Al-Masry said that the story of Caliph Omar bin Al-Khattab, when he entered the tent of a Muslim mother with her children who were starving, and their mother was boiling stones in water, is repeated almost daily. However, the only difference is that the mother found the just Caliph carrying food and offering it to her. But in our case in Gaza, we found neither food, nor the Caliph, nor justice.

Al-Masry added in an interview with Al-Quds, "My children and I found ourselves in our tent hungry, destitute, thirsty, afraid, terrified, and helpless. But we are certain in God that we, like Omar ibn al-Khattab, will be sent by God to a man like him, who will feed our children with his own hand."

Fainting in the streets

Thirty-year-old Mahdi Arafat said he used to go to the markets to see the merchandise on display, even though he couldn't afford to buy it due to a lack of money. However, last week, he went to the market and fainted in the street, once in the Al-Wahda area and the other time in Al-Jalaa.

In an interview with Al-Quds, Arafat indicated that he does not suffer from any chronic illnesses, but the lack of food, particularly flour and sugar, has made it difficult for him to resist fainting. He is also extremely thin, having lost approximately 17 kilograms in the last two months alone.

He doesn't go to the bathroom anymore!

The story of citizen Adi Al-Najjar was strange to those outside Gaza, and common among Gazans. He complained about not being able to use the bathroom to relieve himself, noting that he usually used to use the bathroom two to three times a day. When he asked about the reason for this, several people told him that it was because his stomach had been without food for quite some time.

Al-Najjar explained in an interview with Al-Quds that some foods have begun to have harmful effects on the health of Gaza residents, particularly canned foods, which contain preservatives. This is especially true given the lack of alternatives throughout the 650-day war of extermination, in addition to the unavailability of meat. Even the water is contaminated and unfit for drinking or human consumption.