The specter of famine haunts the displaced people in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, near the border with Egypt, and who flock to the region in the thousands daily, in light of the continued Israeli aggression, which has intensified its aggression against the central region of the Strip.
In contrast to the increasing number of people displaced around the clock to Rafah, the scarcity of the simplest necessities of life is increasing, and these people, including children, women, the elderly, and the sick, do not find anything to subsist on their livelihoods.
Even the food distributed by charitable organizations there is modestly sufficient, except for a small portion of the displaced, whose number exceeds hundreds of thousands. They survived with their lives the aggression of the Israeli occupation army and the indiscriminate retaliatory bombing, but they are on the verge of a real famine that threatens them with death.
Despite the worsening tragedy of these people, there is nothing on the horizon to alleviate their suffering, especially after a number of donor countries withheld their aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), after Israel claimed that 12 of the agency’s employees – numbering 13,000 in the Gaza Strip – were involved in Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood.
