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Palestine: Gazans forced to live among garbage heaps: "Our lives have turned into hell"

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GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE - APRIL 8, 2025: Since the beginning of March, Israel's violation of the ceasefire by halting humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and resuming genocidal attacks has forced Palestinians to live among garbage heaps and make bread with worm-infested flour. Tel Aviv resumed its attacks on Gaza on March 18 for "pressuring Hamas" to release Israeli hostages, rather than through a ceasefire. However, in the second phase of the war after the ceasefire, the focus shifted from military attacks to "humanitarian pressure." Since March 2, Israel has systematically displaced people with "evacuation" orders, leaving them hungry and thirsty. For more than a month, no aid has entered Gaza, whereas before the war, approximately 500 trucks used to enter daily. With the depletion of flour and fuel, bakeries shut down in early April, and hunger in Gaza has been growing since. As a result, life for Gazans has turned into what they describe as "hell." - Families living among garbage heaps Families who migrated from the northern city of Beit Lahia to the Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Gaza have started living in tents amid garbage piles, cooking bread with worm-infested flour. "Our home was bombed by the Israeli army. We came to this garbage dump. Our life has turned into hell. We have nothing," said displaced Palestinian woman Umm Ayesh. "What is the mental state of a mother who has lost her children?" said Umm Ayesh, who lost two sons in the attacks. Calling out to the Islamic world, she continued: "Aren't these children also their children? Let them see what we are going through. These children are hungry. We try to feed them with bread made from 1-2 kilos of flour. End the war, open the border gates so we can eat like humans. These children ask me for food, but I have nothing to give them." Another mother, Umm Ibrahim, expressed her discomfort at cooking bread to feed her children in the midst of garbage heaps. Umm Ibrahim, who said she is ill and cannot even get medicine, shared that she has lost hope in people and only trusts in Allah. - Basic food prices are extremely high Sabir Muhammed Subh said, "I came to this garbage dump from Beit Lahia. We were forced to live this life because Israel was bombing and shooting at us in Beit Lahia." Subh, who has a large family of 30-35, mostly consisting of small children, explained that they go to the market only to return empty-handed. Due to the closed border gates, the prices of essential goods like flour, sugar, and rice have skyrocketed. "We are just breathing; we are not living. If we die, we will be relieved," Subh said, complaining that Arab countries do not see their situation. Writing by Ayse Elif Erdis

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