Hamas says Israel has turned food into a ‘weapon of slow killing’ in Gaza and aid into a tool of ‘chaos and looting’.
Al Jazeera Live
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In a makeshift tent on a Gaza beach, three-month-old Muntaha’s grandmother Nemah Hamouda grinds up chickpeas into the tiniest granules she can to form a paste to feed the baby, knowing it will cause her to cry in pain as she tries to keep her from starving.
“I am terrified about the fate of the baby,” Hamouda told the Reuters news agency. “We named her after her mother, … hoping she can survive and live long, but we are so afraid. We hear children and adults die every day of hunger.”
