Lina Abu Shaaban, a Gaza City resident, says her family depends on a community kitchen because food has become so expensive amid shortages caused by the Israeli blockade.
“We can’t survive without it. I wait five to seven hours in the heat just to get food, and I’m always scared of being bombed,” she told Al Jazeera while waiting in line for a bowl of lentils at the kitchen, which was set up at a school housing displaced people.
Another resident in line, Um Ahmad al-Sayfi, also said she has no choice but to get food from the community kitchen because her family is suffering from a lack of supplies. She condemned Israel’s targeting of the food distribution points.
“They bomb them so that we die of hunger. I saw a kitchen get hit just days ago – children were burning. Why don’t they want us to live?” she told Al Jazeera.
