From a desperate attempt to get aid to an expulsion order and the death of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif – Karim recounts nine days in Gaza
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arim is a trained nurse in his early 20s from Gaza City. He has been displaced by the war 12 times and survived an Israeli strike in Rafah. He now lives in the ruins of his former home with his parents and four brothers. He kept a diary for the Guardian over the course of a week.
Today, I have to do something a bit “exciting”. I’m going to a food distribution point for the first time, what I call the death lottery. I’m leaving in about 30 minutes. I’ve said goodbye to my family and hugged them all. You never know.
Why risk walking toward your own death? It’s not by choice. For many days now each of us has been living on a single pita bread and a bowl of lentil soup per day. That’s it.
