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After surviving on bitter loaves made from animal feed instead of proper flour, three young brothers fled their home in Gaza City for a tent further south. There, they were eating a tub of a sweet crumbly paste.
Seraj Shehada, 8, and his brothers Ismail, 9, and Saad, 11, said they ran away since there was nothing to eat in Gaza City. They are now with their aunt in her tent in central Gaza.
Food shortages have been a problem across the Palestinian enclave, but they are even worse in northern Gaza, where deliveries of aid are rare.
The boys’ aunt, Eman Shehada, was doing her best to care for them. Heavily pregnant, she lost her husband in Israel’s war on Gaza. She was left alone with her daughter, a toddler.
The war has displaced most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people and caused widespread hunger and disease.
