One Meal Every Three Days": Journalist & Aid Worker Back from Gaza on Stark Reality on the Ground

The BBC, Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse have all called on Israel to allow journalists in and out of Gaza as starvation there becomes imminent. In a statement, the news outlets said, "We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families." We speak with Afeef Nessouli, a journalist who just returned from Gaza, where he volunteered as an aid worker. "It has been an incredibly awful experience to see people sort of become sicker and sicker from hunger," says Nessouli, who describes visiting community kitchens in Gaza that have run out of food. "Many of us would just have one meal a day," he says of his seven weeks in Gaza. Now, his colleagues who remain in Gaza "are having one meal every three days."

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