Yassir Subhi works at a pediatric ward at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, one of Gaza's largest hospitals – which barely functions after a year and a half of war.
He tells AP that the clinic can only receive critical cases. And only for short periods, so that more can receive treatment. When the news agency visits, only four malnourished babies can be treated at a time.
We cannot help more. We have nothing left.
UN kitchens closing
Israel closed Gaza's borders completely to aid shipments in early March, as a pressure tactic against its military enemy, the Islamist Hamas. Since then, UN organizations have used stored supplies. The most important food program is the WFP's 168 "soup kitchens". But at the end of April, WFP wrote that the last rations had been driven out of the warehouses.
"How long the kitchens can continue is unclear, but last week ten of them closed, writes the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. "The rest have reduced the amount of food they offer."
Despite Gaza's area being only a third of Öland, there is a lot of arable land. But much of it is destroyed or inaccessible due to the war. So the few locally produced vegetables that are available are extremely expensive, reports the Arab media company Al Jazeera from Dayr al-Balah.
"Risking death"
The sea remains. But even there, Israeli military is waiting, not hesitating to open fire if a fishing boat moves too far from the shoreline.
The army has in principle made the sea a forbidden area, says fisherman Abd al-Halim Qanan to Al Jazeera's TV team near Khan Yunis.
Fishermen who venture out risk death.
In desperation, Qanan's family and their neighbors in the refugee tents along the beach have taken a new approach: they catch turtles in the water's edge.
We have never eaten turtles before. And never thought we would do it either.
Majda Qanan tells that she is now cooking turtle meat for the third time.
We share it among us. If the neighboring tent does not have food, neither do we.
But it hurts. Boy Yamin Abu Ammoura says that earlier one took care of the turtles.
I had one that I fed with carrots and cucumber.
So when the family caught a sea turtle to kill it, the boy was horrified.
I became sad and started crying. I felt so sorry for it.
