'' BREAK -LOAF OF- BREAD '' : TRAGEDY GAZA'S ESSAY

GAZA 2023 - '' we still had some savings. Now we have nothing - no savings, no vegetables in the markets, and no affordable flour.''

'' ALL we want is a loaf of bread. '' With aid in short supply, parents in Gaza struggle to feed their children.

It had been like this with Jihad, their son, who was born in 2023, two weeks after the war began. Their increasingly desperate efforts to find food when Jihad was six months old were described in a New York Times article about malnourished children in Gaza in April 2024.

But now she and her husband had two babies to keep alive at a time when Israel had blocked almost all aid from entering Gaza for nearly three months - 80 days of total siege beginning in March, Israel began to ease the blockade in May, but only a thin trickle of supplies has arrived.

The traditional United Nations-run system for delivering aid has faltered as looters and fighting have cut off safe routes for aid trucks, and a new, Israeli backed aid distribution system has descended into controversy, chaos and violence.

The Master Essay Publishing continues. The World Students Society thanks Vivian Yee and Bilal Shbair.