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Reality of Gaza is Surreal
It is hard to rectify what has been done to this country
If there is a moment where it begins to sink in, it is the reative quiet moments that occasionally crop up in parts of Gaza. Their are not near enough of them. The status of the brokered sease fire remains tenuous at best.
People slowly move through the enclave. They have few belongings and while they may find some alleviation from the grim reality of the past 15 months, there is no real consolation to be had.
All around them is destruction, death and rubble. Streets and covered with the remains of people’s homes. The obliteration is is everywhere. Maybe 80% of the housing is totally lost or significantly shattered.
Not included in the death count which stands at over 47,000 is the untold number of bodies that remain under rubble. We cannot be sure the number but it is likely in the thousands.
The Problem of Food
As bad as the issue of finding shelter, and the often grim reality that your home looking nothing like it last was, there is an issue that has nagged at the population since the IDF onslaught began. The food insecurity. That is a nice way to but it, but the issue has grown more consequential as time has passed, Netanyahu has downplayed the issue of hunger but Israel has not allowed anything…
