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📍Khan Younis, Gaza Strip
Six weeks into Israel’s total blockade, Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are facing what could be the deadliest threat yet — not bombs, but hunger.
🧕🏽 Rehab Akhras and Her Family of 13
In a makeshift camp stitched from plastic sheets and despair, Rehab Akhras, 64, tries to hold her family together. Using cardboard scraps to light a fire, she boils the last can of fava beans — the only food left for thirteen hungry mouths.
“What will one can of fava beans do for us?” she asks, the flame flickering like hope.
🍞 Food Supplies Exhausted
Since the start of March, Israel’s checkpoints have remained sealed, choking off humanitarian aid.
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Ceasefire food stocks? Gone.
Emergency distributions? Ended.
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Bakeries? Closed.
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Markets? Empty.
Even survival staples like flour and rice have vanished from shelves, pushing families to the edge.
⚠️ Hunger Has No Borders
While the bombs have spared Rehab’s family — hunger is proving more lethal.
"We wake up and sleep to the sound of drones, but it is the silence of empty stomachs that is killing us now."
The people of Gaza are not just fighting for their lives — they are fighting for the right to eat.
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✊ Call to Action
Aid agencies are calling for urgent humanitarian corridors. Without immediate intervention, the threat of famine will claim more lives than airstrikes ever could.
