Gaza crisis: Food distribution
Mohammed Ali, Oxfam’s Advocacy and Media Researcher visited one of Oxfam’s food distribution points in Gaza City. Here are just a few of the people he met there.
Oxfam GB and its partner, Ma’an Developmental Centre, are providing 3,300 families in Gaza (almost 22,000 people) people with food parcels over the next 2 weeks.
Each parcel is enough to feed a family of seven for two weeks. Each parcel contains canned meat, tuna, milk, tea, salt, sugar and cooking oil.
Over the next months, Oxfam will reach even more families in need of support.
Photo: Mohammed Ali
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Eftkhar Hamash is 40 years old; she is from Al Sheik Zayed city, north of the Gaza Strip. She has seven children.
"This food will feed family for the next few weeks but what will we do after that?
"My husband is unemployed and is a sick man. Our living conditions were already difficult, and the Israeli attacks increased our suffering.
"This blockade and war take us all back 50 years; as we now have to cook with gasoline burners, we have little water, electricity, and little life even. our living conditions are awful."
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Mohammed Abu Shelah is 40 years old, he has five children and he lives in Al Sheik Redwan neighbourhood, north of Gaza City. Mohammed was working inside Israel, but the blockade has rendered him jobless.
"I would like to thank Oxfam for these emergency food supplies. We have no food at all inside my home.
"When I was working in Israel, I was meeting the needs of my family, now I have nothing and rely on aid. If the Israelis opened the border and ended their blockade, I would have a chance to work in the construction business and I would have a chance to be independent."
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Fouad Wishah is 63 years old. He has 10 family members in Gaza City."My home is not suitable for a human to live in, there are many cracks caused by intensive Israeli shelling.
"I fled my home and I went to stay for three weeks with my brother-in-law. I am so sad for what has and is happening in Gaza. We were so scared... for three weeks, sleep was no longer a word in our dictionary because of the intensive Israeli shelling.
"What happens when these food parcels run out? I would like to tell the world that we are human like them and it is our right to live as any other people, we all need to live a decent life."
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37 year old Hanan Humeed is from Gaza City. She is a single mother of 6 children; her husband died from kidney failure one year ago. The family is totally dependent on humanitarian aid.
"I don't have a home; I live with my brother. Our situation has been bad since the blockade; it is particularly bad now - difficult to find food, water and electricity. This is having an effect on my children's health.
"This food package will be enough for a week, as we will use it for my family and my brothers' family.
"We have had enough of killing, of the blockade, and we want world leaders to act immediately to ease our suffering."
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Nafez Abu Jedyan is 39 years old; he has three daughters and four sons. He is unemployed and suffers from kidney failure. He lives in Jabaliya refugee camp, north of the Gaza Strip, his home has been severely damaged.
"The war on Gaza was terrifying, my children were afraid to go to the bathroom. we are totally destroyed – mentally and physically.
"This food parcel will give me a little food, but who will give me my home back?"
Photo: Mohammed Ali
