The UN’s World Food Programme, a lifeline for millions of people in Gaza who rely on it for food aid, has run out of its food stores. Palestinians in Gaza say that famine isn’t imminent — it’s already here.

This is so scary and so terribly sad – Peter

Aside from the intermittent bombardment and shelling, something more constant preoccupies Muhammad al-Hajj Ahmad, 54. A resident of the Zeitoun neighborhood east of Gaza City, Hajj Ahmad cannot stop thinking about how he is going to feed his seven children, the eldest of whom is 16. Since the beginning of the war, he and his family have relied on food distribution points run by relief organizations, as well as individual and collective initiatives. The last satisfying meal he and his family ate was two weeks ago.

“Since the beginning of the war, we’ve gotten used to eating one meal a day,” Hajj Ahmad says in video testimony for Mondoweiss. “If we’re lucky, we sometimes get dinner. We get our main daily meal from food distribution points, but they’re dwindling, and most have closed, so we don’t have a main meal anymore. It means death for us and our children.”

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