“Imagine looking at your child, and you can’t feed him. You can’t do anything for him.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35128021

Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Aug 22, 2025

GAZA CITY—Umm Jana’s two-and-a-half year-old daughter, Jouri, died earlier this month from malnutrition. Now, her other daughter, five-year-old Jana, is also slowly starving to death and there is little Umm Jana can do to save her.

“My daughter Jouri—because of the famine—was deeply affected. She developed severe malnutrition and health complications that led to her death. I hope I never have to go through with Jana what I went through with Jouri,” Umm Jana told Drop Site News in an interview at the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital in Gaza City. Jana was lying on a cot beside her, barely stirring.