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Last month, the Israeli government launched a paid campaign on social media, claiming that there is no famine in Gaza. He released a video showing food in restaurants and markets full of fruits and vegetables. The video says: “There is no famine in Gaza. Any other claim is a lie.”

It is true that today you can see the markets and stores with full shelves in southern Gaza. You can see cucumber boxes, tomatoes, flour bags, eggs and oil bottles. Even cafes and restaurants that offer pizza, drinks and improvised sweets are made of anything the market offers.

From a distance, these places seem almost normal, such as trying to maintain normal life fragments. But in reality, these are far -fetched places. Its prices are astronomical, and even those who can afford their costs face another barrier: the cash crisis.

The few people who still have money in bank accounts must pay a 50 percent commission to withdraw cash. The banknotes are often so dilapidated that stores and cafes refuse to accept them. Consequently, only the distinctive small minority can sit at a coffee cafe table for $ 9 or have a small pizza for $ 18 while the rest of us can see only.

The situation is similar in the market. Most people who pass through full stands do not pick up a bag of tomatoes or a tray of eggs. It only looks, sometimes remains silent, and sometimes moves quickly with hollow eyes. As for the majority, these goods are visible but cannot be prejudiced, heated in their abundance and harm them in an indignation.

This is the paradox of hunger in Gaza: food is available in certain places, but it is far -fetched.

I still remember how cheese and sugar returned in early August for a short period to the market after not seeing it for several months. Israel had just started allowing commercial trucks to enter Gaza instead of helping.

I can’t describe the sudden boom of joy that rushed to me in full view of them. I haven’t seen cheese for a long time until its shape seemed strange to me. For a passing moment, I felt something that I did not dare to feel for months: excitement.

That morning, I woke up from the dizziness of hunger. I have already lost more than 10 kg (22 pounds) in only three months, and my body often trembles with weakness. But the scene of sugar and cheese on these shelves ignited a corner of my heart. Perhaps, I thought things would change now. Perhaps the siege was mitigating. We may start living again.

But when I asked the price, my heart sank. It was silly. It would be laughing if it was not harsh. One kilo (2.2 pounds) of sugar costs $ 70 – more than the weekly income for some families before the war. The cost of a block of cheese that cannot feed a single family for breakfast $ 10.

I did not buy anything. I have moved away, and agreed to think that perhaps in a few days the prices will decrease. They did not. After weeks, flour, eggs and oil appeared – but again, they were sold at rates that mocked our hunger. A kilo of flour, which does not satisfy even the daily needs of one family, costs $ 45 although there are days when they decreased to $ 26. One small egg can cost $ 5.

This sudden appearance of commercial commodities is not random. They are not intended to feed the population, but to dump the markets with adequate products to be photographed and photographed amid global pressure and calls.

Once they enter Gaza, the goods pass through several hands and a series of intermediaries of Israeli suppliers who have put rated prices from the beginning, or merchants who pay bribes or “protection fees” for armed groups and speculators who disappear supplies to resell them later. By the time the food reaches the shelves, he appreciated a great value that it became a luxurious element that was displayed instead of consuming it.

These moments, these carefully specific “entries” of goods, have become weapons in themselves. Israel knows that the vast majority of Palestinians are unemployed and are completely dependent on aid to survive. Its cruelty is not only in bombs or siege, but also in the way our needs play by allowing some goods to enter, only to heat us, to torture us.

Now, food has become a harsh reminder of what was lost. Seeing a choice on the market no longer imagines a refreshing authority, but rather you feel canceled to know that you cannot bear it. Seeing sugar is not thinking about common tea with friends, but to taste the bitterness of absence.

Mothers count forms in their hands, knowing that they will never extend enough to buy food. Parents avoid their eyes from the faces of their hungry children, and they are ashamed that the shelves are full, they cannot bring one meal.

This deliberate manipulation turns each trip to the market into a work of humiliation, a reminder that staying in front of us but has never been given.

What Gaza should not be called “famine” – the scarcity of food caused by drought, economic failure or a natural catastrophe. This is the deliberate famine, designed by the occupation. It is a slow calculated deprivation that is imposed through the siege, bombardment and instigator chaos.

Israel launched its advertising campaign shortly before the classification of integrated food security, and finally the hunger screen announced the famine in Gaza. By that time, nearly 376 Palestinians died, or nearly half of them, due to hunger. Since then, the death number of hunger has exceeded 400. Israel has officially announced that it has been planning to cut aid to northern Gaza with its attack on Gaza City revenues.

Meanwhile, the world did nothing but the condemnation of the show. It seems that it prefers to reflect itself with the Israeli photos from the Gaza market rather than recognizing the bitter truth.

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