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Gaza in Humanitarian Crisis

Published by jalbertini on October 12th, 2023 in Military, Social Justice, Take Action!.

The Gaza Strip is only 140 square miles area (approximately 25 miles long by 3-7 miles wide) with a population of 2.3 million people that includes 1 million children

Gaza is in a humanitarian crisis, days into the war between Israel and Hamas. Power is out, and the enclave is completely under siege — cut off from food, fuel, water and electricity. The conflict has claimed a total of at least 2,500 Palestinian and Israeli lives.The crossing into Egypt has been hit at least three times. Morning Edition host Leila Fadel is in Jerusalem, where she’s been calling people in Gaza overnight.

Fadel shares a conversation with NPR producer and Gaza resident Anas Baba on Up First. He says he left his job to evacuate his family but couldn’t find safety. “Where am I going to take them?” he says. “Where am I going to hide them?” Palestinians are worried they’ll be cut off from the world. One journalist tells Fadel, “Don’t forget us. We are innocent people.” 

🎧 Wafaa Abuzayda was visiting her family in Gaza when the war broke out. She’s among hundreds of trapped Palestinian Americans. She says the hardest feeling is hiding her fear from her 1-year-old son, who doesn’t understand what’s happening. When asked to give a message to the U.S. government, she simply pleaded, “Please save us.”
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