Warda Mattar crushes a date in her hands and wraps it in gauze. It’s the only thing she’s found for trick your baby’s hunger of just two months. “I used dates to keep my son quiet, but he kept crying,” says this Palestinian woman, who explains that she cannot give him milk, because “there is no food, there is no fruit, there is nothing”.

A hell on earth where one in six children under two years of age suffer from malnutrition acute and wasting in northern Gaza. “We turn to the last option, the cactieven with its thorns,” says Marwan Al Awadeya, a resident of the Strip, where the Israeli forces, responsible for this suffering, shoot at even in the middle of food distribution.

A horror without limits to which images such as those of a man who He picks up a handful of flour from the ground, as best he can.or of civilians crowded on the beach, crying out to heaven hoping to get the little help that comes to them.

Famine is practically inevitable in Gaza, according to the United Nations, whose director of coordination in Humanitarian Affairs, Ramesh Rajasingham, has warned that “at least 576,000 people in Gaza, a quarter of the population, are one step away from famine.” “. “If nothing changes, a famine is imminent in northern Gaza“, warned Carl Skau, executive director of the World Food Programme.

They demand from the UN Security Council a immediate ceasefirebecause their silence, they denounce, only gives Israel a license to kill the Palestinian population.