The Gaza fire interruption agreement has been held for a month. There were critical moments and violations, but the mediators have so far been able to maintain my job alive.
This made it possible for many of the 1.9 million displaced people to return to the areas from which they escaped, mitigating the load of the southern and central gauze, which hosted large improvised camps without the necessary infrastructure.
The attachment certainly brought a sense of relief to the Gaza’s belt, which suffered unimaginable suffering for 15 months. But for families who survived ruthless bombing and destruction, the battle is far from the end.
They face a new war – one against poverty, famine, homelessness and despair. The houses lie in the ruins, the hospitals are flooded, and the schools are destroyed or still inclined to be displaced and homeless. She has returned Gaza for decades.
In recent weeks, we have seen that access to AID has significantly increases in the tape, especially north, which has been surrounded for months. But there are significant challenges.
In the field, colleagues and friends report constant difficulties in food, water, medication and stock. Distribution remains a key challenge due to damaged infrastructure, but this is not the only problem.
There are still obstacles to the entry of different essential items. Blocking trucks carrying tents, mobile homes and heavy cleansing machines have passed a tribute agreement last week. Due to the absence of proper shelter, many Palestinian families continue to suffer heavy weather conditions through the gauze belt, but especially in the north, where the rate of destruction of civilian buildings is the largest.
Many of our colleagues say they have not yet seen a sign of a blanket or a tent. They are still exposed to elements, unable to properly perform their work rescue their lives.
Some of our users share that they have stopped swimming their children because of the sharp cold. Sara*, the mother of three children who lived in Deir El-Balah, she told our team earlier this month that she had bought her children in the sea, but she could no longer do so because she was afraid that they could get sick. With a constant disadvantage of the drug, this could be a death penalty for a small child.
Although a large amount of food has entered the tape – especially compared to a few months ago – there are still significant challenges in meeting the Palestinians’ food needs.
Helping packages are filled with exclusively I leave objects. Oil, flour, ghee, rice, canned beans and tomatoes and tuna. There are no fresh fruits, vegetables, meat or eggs. Long -term health effects of 15 months without fresh food will surely be understood only in the coming years.
Worse, these packets are still not enough to help and do not reach all the people in need. In fact, for the majority of the Gaza population, help has not seen any significant improvement since the transient coast.
Fatima*, a 21-year-old mother of two, says she still suffers in the same conditions she faced a few months ago. Her tent leaks in the rain and collapses in the wind. She hadn’t had a night night at 16 months. Her children, however, no longer have the energy to cry. They were starving and getting sick. Although help increases in the region, it still cannot find food and nutrients they need to survive.
Gaza requires 600 trucks of food a day at least four consecutive months to deal with acute malnutrition. Hundreds more will be needed every day to return to a human live standard standard and years to come.
Many food products such as eggs, chicken, fresh fruits and vegetables are now available in some gauze parts, but they are for sale. This is because a significant part of the trucks that entered Gaza are not help. They carry commercial goods, including food, which is then sold to a few Palestinians who can afford them at excessive prices.
Humanitarian agencies have mostly sworn in buying goods to resale for fear of stimulating growing prices outside the reach of civilians. But even still, there are egg reports that cost $ 40, $ 50, even $ 60 for a card in the south, where supplies are supposedly easier to arrive, flour bags can be as much as $ 100.
It is clear that the current humanitarian response cannot provide what Palestinians from Gaza should start to renew their lives.
Gaza was burned. Most of its agricultural areas are destroyed and parts are covered with ruins or toxic remains – the remains of a violent bombardic campaign on the civilian population. Nothing will grow years to come.
The economy of the stripes is all just destroyed. The vast majority of workers’ people are unemployed and there is no hope that they will provide employment in the near future.
Palestinian families simply cannot survive on packs of flour, rice and canned fish.
Because distribution of help and deprived of dignity, the urgency of the new approach was never clearer. Gaza people need a more dignified way to get support that can help them recover in the long run.
Seeing the inadequacy of the current humanitarian response, our organization decided to launch its initiative “Expand your Table”, which is rooted in solidarity, compassion and common humanity. Instead of relying on the often inconsistent and inadequate assistance that reaches Gaza, we empower people around the world to make a tangible difference to twins with families in Gaza.
Through monthly donations, people can directly support the Palestinian family, providing not only food but also dignity and hope for a better tomorrow. Customers will receive monetary vouchers who allow them to decide how to meet their own needs – a choice that has not been provided to them from the beginning of the horrors in Gaza.
Providing family dignity of choice in how to take care of yourself, not even starting to solve problems, but that will be the beginning. We hope that this initiative will help renovate the agency, foster parents and ensure that the basic needs of Palestinian men, women and children are met, who have experienced unimaginable suffering and destruction.
Such a holistic approach not only can provide immediate help, but to support economic recovery, education and health.
We hope that other organizations will also adopt various, more effective strategies in gauze that offer more dignified and humane support to the Palestinians. The path to recovery will be long, but we can be part of the solution.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s and do not reflect the editorial position of Al Jazeere.
