Mother forced to feed young children mouldy bread as hunger grips Gaza

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The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) points out that Palestinian mother Hanadi is just one of “hundreds of thousands in Gaza struggling to survive” as Israeli weeks of siege have blocked all aid supplies — food, medicine, clean water, fuel — from entering the conflict-torn territory, the organisation said in a post on X.

“I never expected I would go back to using it,” says Palestinian mother Hanadi in a video in the post, as she sorts through hard, stale pieces of mould-infested bread at her tent shelter in Gaza.

“But here we are eating it,” she said, in a video interview with the UN children’s agency, Unicef.

“I try to salvage some of it, the pieces with only a little mould. I remove the mould and dip it in tea to feed my children,” Hanadi said.

“I have no choice,” she said.

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