🚨🚨 Have you asked yourself today how people in Gaza eat? And how much their food costs — for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
Let me tell you.
I woke up at 6 a.m. after a violent night where the bombing, destruction, and explosions didn’t stop for a single moment. I went to the market looking for flour after my children went to sleep hungry. I found it — 80 shekels per kilo, cash only. I could only afford 2 kilos, for 160 shekels.
Alright, we had flour — but what could we eat with the bread?
I bought 5 tomatoes at 60 shekels per kilo. We ate them with salt and bread. That was breakfast.
When lunchtime came, of course, there was nothing. To save some bread for dinner, we decided to try and buy pasta because the kids have completely refused to eat lentils anymore. I searched all over Gaza. I couldn’t find any pasta.
Eventually, I found someone selling it for 80 shekels per kilo. Can you imagine? Rice? It’s over 100 shekels per kilo now!
Of course, you need a few additions to cook the pasta — a bit of sauce, some spices, anything — that cost another 50 shekels.
When dinner came, we didn’t know what to make. There are no canned foods, no za'atar, no spices, no vegetables. The children had to eat plain bread. Just bread. Again.
We didn’t feel full — not at breakfast, not at lunch, not at dinner. We’ve forgotten what it feels like to be full.
I just want to understand one thing: **What’s next? What has to happen for the world to finally move?**
Do you know what’s worse than genocide?
**Watching 2 million people — including children — suffer through a slow, shameful famine, and staying silent. Choosing not to help.**
Do you know something?
**Today, I spent exactly \$150 just to survive one more day — for me and my children. And now we wait, hoping for relief.**
Thank you, world, for your silence.
Thank you for watching us starve to death.
Thank you for being complicit in this genocide and famine.
I honestly don’t know what else to say.
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