BBC returns to Gaza baby left hungry by Israeli blockade

There is no excitement with the passage of the camera. Children barely look. What can surprise the child who lives between the dead, death, and waiting for death? He wore hunger for them.

They are waiting for queues to get tight quotas or nothing at all. I have grown dependent on my colleague and his camera, and photographing the BBC. It witnesses their hunger, their death, and for the gentle occurring of their bodies – or shrapnel from their bodies – in white shrouds whose names are written on them, if they are known.

For 19 months of war, and now with a renewed Israeli attack, this local photographer – whom I do not call for his safety – listened to the screams of survivors in hospitals.

The material distance is respectful, but it is in his mind, day and night. He is one of them, trapped in the same hell of fear.

This morning, he set out to find a five -month -old girl The comic frame and the exhausted crying in Nasser Hospital In Khan Yunis, he affected him a lot, when he was photographing there earlier this month, he wrote to tell me that something had broken inside.

It weighs slightly more than 2 kg (4 pounds 6 ounces). A five -month -old girl must have about 6 kg or more.

Since then, Siwar has now been unloaded at home, and my colleague has heard. This is what leads him to crushed houses, temporary fabric and corrugated iron shelters.

He searches in difficult circumstances. A few days ago, I resurrected how he was doing. He replied, “I am not fine.” “A short time ago, the Israeli army announced the evacuation of most areas of Khan Yunis … we do not know what to do – there is no safe place to go to.

“McClasus is very crowded with the displaced. We have lost and we have no idea about the right decision at this moment.”

It finds a single bedroom hut, which is the entrance that consists of a floral, gray and black curtain. Inside, there are three ranks, part of the drawer box, and a mirror that reflects the sunlight across the Earth in front of Siwar, her mother survived her grandmother, Reem.

Siwar is calm, insured by the preventive existence of the two women. The child cannot absorb the regular milk formula due to a severe sensitivity reaction. In light of the circumstances of the war and The Israeli siege on the arrival of aidThere is a severe shortage of the formula you need.

Nagua, 23, explains that her condition settled when she was in Nasser Hospital, so doctors emptied her to protect the child several days ago.

Now at home, she says the child’s weight is starting to slip again. “Doctors told me that Siwar had improved and better than before, but I think she is still thin and did not improve much. They found only one milk box, which is it[has]It started running out. “

Dance dance in front of the face of Siwar. “The situation is very comfortable,” says Nagua. “

Siwar lived with the voice of war since last November when she was born. Artillery, missiles, fallen bombs – far and close. The shooting, Israeli drone blades. “She understands these things. The sound of tanks, warplanes and missiles are very noisy and they are close to us. When you hear these sounds, amaze and cry. If they are asleep, they wake up and cry.”

Doctors in Gaza says that many young mothers mention that they are unable to breastfeed their children due to lack of nutrition. The urgent problem is food and clean water.

They survived the same nutrition when Siwar was born. She and her mother Reem still find it difficult to get anything to eat themselves. It is a struggle every hour of waking up. “In our case, we cannot provide milk or diapers due to prices and border closure.”

On May 22, the Israeli military body Kojat said there was no lack of food in Gaza. She said, “large quantities of children’s and flour foods for bakeries,” she was brought to the pocket in recent days.

The agency has repeatedly insisted that Hamas is stealing aid, while the Israeli government says that the war will continue until Hamas is destroyed and the Israeli hostages are released in Gaza. According to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it is believed that 20 hostages were seized by Hamas on October 7, 2023 and up to 30 people.

Relief agencies, the United Nations and many foreign governments, including Britain, refuse to comment Kojat that there is no food shortage. US President Donald Trump talked about people “starving” in Gaza.

United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres described the amount of aid that Israel allowed to enter Gaza as a “teaspoon.” He said that the Palestinians were “bearing what might be the most soft stage in this harsh struggle” with the supplies restricting fuel, shelter, gas support and water purification.

According to the United Nations, 80 % of Gaza was appointed either as an Israeli military zone or a place where the departure was requested.

Denial, expressions of anxiety, condemnation and moments that seemed as if the turning points came and went throughout this war. The only constant is the suffering of 2.1 million people in Gaza, such as Najwa and her daughter Siyar.

“One does not think of the future or the past,” Najwa says.

There is only the current moment and how to survive.

With additional reports from Malak Hassouneh, Alice Doyard and Nik Millard.