'I could no longer breastfeed': Gaza woman on two-month odyssey of displacement

[Jilly_in_VA]

Rina has already lost her husband, Omar, to an Israeli airstrike. Now she fears their baby son, Ahmed, could die from disease or cold, in the freezing tent by the Egyptian border that has become her fifth shelter in as many weeks.

After Omar died in October, Rina’s breast milk dried up. In the weeks since, the only constant in her life has been the ever more challenging search for formula and clean water to keep her only child alive as they flee across Gaza.

Weeks of bombing and siege have turned the enclave into a wasteland of hungry refugees, stalked by disease. Now Israel is expanding its ground war south, even allies have warned that a humanitarian catastrophe looms.

The US vice-president, Kamala Harris, said at the weekend “too many innocent Palestinians have been killed”, while the UK opposition leader, Keir Starmer, warned Israel against waging a war in southern Gaza that was as bloody as its campaign in the north.

More than 15,900 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began, mostly women and children, according to health authorities under the Hamas-run government.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/05/gaza-widow-mother-baby-israel-palestine

These are the people I'm thinking of. Not Hamas, not the IDF.

[Aussie105]

1. A humanitarian disaster.

I'm not taking sides, but if I look at the methods Israel uses, the words their leaders speak, and the effect their actions have on Palestinian civilians, it is hard not to.

Israel and those countries that support it will be seen in a harsh light in future.