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Middle East Eye
28-07-2025
- Health
- Middle East Eye
Opinion: To be killed by an air strike is easier than watching your children starve
Amid a man-made famine, starving Palestinian families face the unthinkable: children and the elderly begging for bread, parents praying for death and a world watching in silence, says Ahmed Aziz. Each morning that dawns over the Gaza Strip brings nothing but more hunger, more collapse and a deepening sense of despair. For more than three months, over two million people have endured an unprecedented catastrophe - a true famine in every sense of the word - amid a merciless war, an unrelenting siege and an unforgivable international silence. Famine in Gaza has become a daily reality. It is no longer merely a sensation of deprivation; it manifests in the sight of people collapsing in the streets from sheer exhaustion. Children, women, the elderly - no one is spared. We have witnessed, with our own eyes, bodies slumping on the pavement and lives lost outside the ruins of bakeries or at aid distribution points that never deliver. The price of a kilogram of flour has surpassed $30, while a kilogram of sugar now costs over $130. Most foods are either entirely unavailable or so scarce as to seem imaginary. The tragedy is not just in the prices, but in the absence of essential goods. People are not simply refusing to buy; there is nothing left to buy. The mother of 14-year-old Palestinian Abdul Jawad al-Ghalban, who died of starvation, mourns beside his shrouded body at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on 22 July 2025 (AFP)
Arab News
01-04-2025
- Arab News
Egyptian inmates' ordeal in Sudan prisons
CAIRO: Prisoners held by the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan spoke on Monday of their ordeal in paramilitary detention centers. Arrested two months after the country's civil war began in April 2023, Egyptian traders suspected of spying for the regular army were stripped, tortured and starved, and watched as other inmates died from cholera and malaria. 'You couldn't go two weeks without falling sick,' said Emad Mouawad, 44, who was held at the notorious Soba prison in southern Khartoum after paramilitary forces raided his home in the city. At night, swarms of insects crawled over the prisoners. 'There was nothing that made you feel human,' he said. Ahmed Aziz, who was detained with Mouawad, said: 'They would bring us hot water mixed with wheat flour. Just sticky, tasteless paste.' Water was either polluted from a well or muddy from the Nile. 'If you were sick, you just waited for death,' Aziz said. Another trader, Mohamed Shaaban, 43, said: 'They stripped us naked as the day we were born. Then they beat us, insulted and degraded us.' Back home in Egypt, the former prisoners are struggling to recover physically and mentally. 'We have to try to turn the page and move on,' Shaaban said. 'We have to try and forget.'
