“NO FOOD”
In Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, crowds of Palestinians jostled for position, holding cooking pots, plastic bowls and serving dishes aloft in hopes of getting a hot meal at a distribution point before it closed over a lack of supplies.
“When (our children) tell us they want to eat, what do we do? There’s no flour, there’s no bread, there’s no food, nothing,” Ilham Jargon, a resident, told AFP.
“Sometimes, we stay here waiting but end up leaving without food or water,” she added.
When steaming piles of rice were doled out, the crowds surged forward. A young girl, overwhelmed in the press of bodies, cried out and broke down in tears.
“Today is the last day the charity can work, we are forced to close … so people have flocked here. Within days people will not have any food,” Hani Abu al-Qasim, in charge of food distribution, said.
