Despite the unsustainable situation in Gaza, Muslims in the strip receive Ramadan. The children of a hospital in Khan Yunis celebrate with enthusiasm. It is a very unusual sacred month for the Palestinians who, this time, have decorated the tents where they are sheltering, displaced. They are also not going to start the typical fast because, in fact, they have been hungry since October. 25 people, most of them babies, have died from malnutrition.

“Just so you know, we have fasted for 5 months, so fasting will not be difficult for us,” says a very young Gazan in front of some ruins. Sufian Al-Yazji went to a market in Rafah with the intention of getting groceries to break the fast, as tradition dictates, but he did not find anything. “I came to buy but I can’t find anything to buy. There is nothing, there are no dates or milk or anything. You can’t find anything for children. How are we going to make Suhour? How are we going to eat Iftar? “He complains, desperate.

Added to the food shortage are the incessant attacks by Israel, which has had no qualms about charging against an overcrowded population in the southern end of the strip. It has also punished Palestinians in the West Bank with numerous raids. In fact, Netanyahu has ordered the creation of thousands of new cells in the face of new arrests in the West Bank and Gaza.

In a climate of great tension, Israeli police have prevented access to the Al Aqsa mosque to hundreds of young Palestinians.

Meanwhile, the Open Arms ship with 200 tons of humanitarian aid is still waiting to set sail for Gaza with the much-needed aid.