MIDDLE EAST CRISIS
Gazans in desperate search for food
As the rain poured down on the cluster of tents, Mohammed Shabir searched the streets, cash in hand, looking for something to buy.
“I have money but I can’t find anything to buy,” he said. “I went to the supermarket to buy some beans, lentils or pasta but there was nothing.”
Shabir evacuated his family from the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza after their homes were destroyed in an Israeli airstrike that killed 126 people.
Jabalia refugee camp was hit by an airstrike
ANAS AL-SHAREEF/REUTERS
Israel’s air force had dropped leaflets on the area warning people to move south to safety while its ground operation against Hamas got under way.
Yet in the south, Shabir and his family have joined hundreds of thousands of other displaced Gazans in a desperate daily search for food, water
