UN News / Ziad Taleb Ahmed Fayyad was a pharmacy student and is now selling cheeseweed in Deir Al-Balah after being displaced from Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Gazans eating wild plants to survive

Their journey begins in the open fields every morning in search of these plants, which include cheeseweed – known locally as khubeezeh – which have been eaten by Palestinians as side dishes for generations. Now, they have become a major food source for Gazans. In #Gaza, unemployed youth have resorted to selling wild plants on […]

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© UNICEF/Abed Zagout An 8-year-old child waits her turn to receive food in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. (file)

Gaza: Worst famine fears realised as 10th child reportedly ‘starves to death’

“The official records yesterday or this morning said there was a tenth child officially registered in a hospital as having starved to death,” said UN health agency spokesperson Christian Lindmeier. “A very sad threshold…(but) the unofficial numbers can unfortunately be expected to be higher.” The development followed media reports overnight that four children had died in northern […]

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