Gaza under Israeli siege: Bread lines, yellow water, nonstop explosions
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — There are explosions audible in the cramped, humid room where Azmi Keshawi shelters with his family in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. The bombardments keep coming closer, he says, and they’re wreaking death and destruction. Keshawi, his wife, two sons, two daughters, and tiny grandchildren are trying to survive inside. The Israeli military has relentlessly attacked Gaza in retaliation for a devastating Hamas rampage in southern Israel almost two weeks ago and the Keshawi family’s sense of desperation is growing. Food is running out and Israel has so far stopped humanitarian attempts to bring it in. The family hasn’t showered in days since Israel cut off Gaza’s water and fuel supplies. They get drinking water from the United Nations school, where workers hand out jerrycans of water from Gaza’s subterranean aquifer to desperate families. It tastes salty. The desalination stations stopped working when the fuel ran out. Keshawi boils the water and hopes for the best. “How the hell did the entire world just watch and let Israel turn off the water?” said Keshawi, 59, a US-educated researcher at the International Crisis Group, his voice rising with anger. READ: As Israel bombards Gaza, bakeries run out of bread, water runs low That the world is watching, he says, saddens him the most. Sometimes there are too many airstrikes to forage for food. But his family’s stocks are dwindling, so he tries to get bread when he can. On Thursday, the line for one loaf was chaotic and took five hours. Several bakeries have been bombed. Others have closed because they don’t have enough water or power. Authorities are still working out the logistics for a delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza from Egypt. Keshawi has money to buy food for his grandchildren. But there’s hardly anything to buy. The children often eat stale bread and drink powdered milk. A few Palestinians who own chicken farms and have gas stoves run take-out kitchens from their homes, asking customers to wait for hours to get a meager plate of rice and chicken. Keshawi wishes he didn’t see the water they used — liquid with a disconcerting yellow hue, from a donkey cart. He didn’t tell his wife. READ: Gaza draws closer to total collapse as aid blocked at Egyptian border “It’s not the time to be picky,” he said from his friend’s house where he sought
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