Gaza: To shipwreck the US and Israel negotiations with Hamas

Hope dies in Gaza, as many people die according to the UN. According to the organization’s details, almost one in three people do not eat for days while 90,000 women and children Emergency treatment is needed for malnutrition.

Over 21 children died of malnutrition in Gaza this year but at least 12 of them They died last week.

And while the starvation in the pocket “reaps”, the US and Israel negotiations with Hamas seems to are driven to a wreck.

US Envoy for Peace in the Middle East, Steve Whitkov, announced on Thursday that the Trump government has decided to recall its delegation from Gaza Talks on Consultations.

“We decided to bring our team back from Doha for consultations after Hamas’s last response, which clearly indicates a lack of desire to achieve a truce in Gaza ‘, Witten said in a post on X. “We will now look at alternatives to bring back hostages.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced earlier that it also recalls the Israeli negotiating team from Gaza talks to return to Israel for further consultations.

This decision comes a day after the Palestinian organization Hamas handed over its official response to the mediators on the latest proposal for a ceasefire.

At the center of her answer, Hamas suggests the establishment of a new mechanism To exchange prisoners, noting that to date there have been no substantive negotiations on the subject, despite its importance for it. He stresses that this issue remains a priority.

The return of the Israeli negotiating team from Qatar is no indication that there is a crisis in talks, a senior Israeli official said.

There was no ‘collapse’, The official assured by Israeli journalists on telephone information.

At the same time, the current situation is proof of Hamas’ “rejection and unfortunate approach”, he argued.

‘We have been hungry in the past but never so’

At the same time, the situation in the pocket only gets worse. For months, Israel maintained food missions to Gaza well below hunger portions. Now the death toll is growing rapidly, the Guardian also notes for famine.

Skeletal of hunger children are flooding hospitals in Gaza. Most of the time they either cry out of hunger or shake their own fingers.

A 7 -month -old baby, Mohammed, weighs as much as a newborn.

Malnourished infants and children

“My biggest fear now is to lose my grandson of malnutrition,” said infant grandmother Faiza Abdul Rahman, who is constantly stunned by the lack of food. The day before the only thing he ate was a single piece of bread, which cost 15 Sekel or 3.46 euros.

His brothers also suffer from serious hunger. Some days, they go to bed without a single bite of food.

Mohammed was born healthy, but his mother was too malnourished to produce breast milk, and the family was able to get only two baby milk boxes since he was born.

The Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital is full with other skeletal children, some of whom lie down every two in 12 beds. There are only two pediatric units that operate in the city of Gaza and up to 200 children who need treatment.

Dr. Musab Farwana spends his days trying, but often failing, to save them. He then goes to his home to share meals that are very young with his own hungry sons and daughters.

The whole family loses fast weight, because his salary is not enough to buy almost anything and does not want to risk going to get supplies distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, after another doctor, Dr. Ramzi Hajaj, was killed.

The greatest hunger ever experienced by Gaza

Gaza was never more hungry, despite many warnings of impending famine during almost two years of war. Within just three days of this week, public health officials recorded 43 deaths from hunger – a total of 68 deaths had occurred.

Faja Abdul Rahman, who has stayed in the city of Gaza throughout the war, said that even at the time of the most intense controls on foods entering the northern Gaza last year, the situation was not so bad. “We have been hungry in the past, but never so,” he said. “This is the most difficult phase we’ve ever gone through,” he said.

The testimonies of the locals and doctors in the area, as well as the data of the Israeli government, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the UN and the Humanitarian Organizations, show that food is over.

Empty shelves are reflected in prices, with the flour being sold more than 30 times more expensive than the beginning of the year.

Even money can no longer protect the Palestinians. “Humanitarian organizations see their colleagues and partners lost in front of their eyes,” warned more than 100 assisted groups working in Gaza, including MSF, Save the Children and Oxfam in a joint statement this week.

The AFP journalists’ union said on Monday that for the first time in the history of the agency it is in danger of losing a colleague of hunger. On Wednesday, the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that a “large percentage” of the population of Gaza is starving. “I don’t know how you could call it besides mass hunger – and it’s anthropogenic,” he said.

For months Israel has stopped food missions. The total quantities allowed by early March are much lower than portions of hunger for the 2.1 million population, and Palestinians are already weakened by the effects of prolonged lack of food and repeated displaces.

Vulnerable to diseases

“For almost two years, children here suffer from hunger. Even if some days they felt full, it’s not just about being full, it is to get the nutrients the body needs. And they are completely absent, “said Farwana, the pediatrician.

During these years of malnutrition, they make them more vulnerable to other diseases, and their low immunity is aggravated by serious deficiencies in basic medical species, the entrance of which Israel has also prevented.

“Often, I feel overwhelmed because there is something so simple that the child needs to survive and we cannot provide it,” he said. Three severely malnourished patients died in the intensive care unit this week, among them a girl who would probably have survived if doctors could give her potassium intravenous, who is normally a basic medicine and is now impossible to get it in Gaza.

“We tried to give her alternatives orally, but because of her malnutrition and the complications that arose, she had poor absorption,” he added.

“These cases haunt me, they never leave my mind. This child could have returned to his family and live a normal life. But because a simple thing was not available, he didn’t survive, “he says.

Humanitarian aid

The Israeli government has announced plans to channel humanitarian aid through a US backed by the US and manages four militarized distribution points.

Hundreds of people have been killed trying to get foods shared by the Palestinians described as “death traps”, in which they have shared supplies that cover only a fraction of Gaza’s needs.

By July 22, GHF operated for 58 days, but the food it provided could maintain the population of Gaza for less than a fortnight, even if they were distributed equally.

On Tuesday, UMM Youssef al-Khalidi was getting ready to try her luck at a GHF distribution center for the first time. She avoided them for months because her younger child is two years old and the older one, while her husband is paralyzed and stuck in a wheelchair.

Drink water to fool their hunger

“We were erasing our hunger with water,” he said. “My fear of my family is greater than my fear of myself. I am afraid that something bad will happen to me and leave them without anyone having to take care of them, “he says.

But her family was left without food for four days last week and when a passerby gave her a bag of rice and two potatoes, this infinite amount had to be shared by 8 people.

The children were excellent students before the war and always won scholarships. Now they spend their days sitting on the side of the road under a bombarded mosque in the Al-Wehda district in Gaza, where girls try to sell bracelets instead of begging.

There is no great demand for cheap jewelry in the gauze today, and although sometimes a passerby regrets the company of weak children with dirty faces and tattered clothes, pricing raising means that money is barely enough to buy little food.

“My kids are left skeletal, skin and bones,” Khalidi stressed. “Even the slightest effort stunns them. They sit again, asking for food, and I have nothing to give them. I can’t lie that I’ll bring them something when I know I won’t be able to do it, ”he adds.

Thus, the hope of finally getting a little food exceeded the risk of losing the adult who kept their lives united.

Her husband’s phone had been stolen earlier during the war, so they would have no way to communicate the many hours she would spend walking to the GHF site, then running to try to find food and returning again. The family should just wait and hope.

“I have no one else to send,” he said. “It is painful to see them suffering and their health gets worse every day they stay without food,” he concluded.