A woman and her daughter found a “small pile of cooked rice, a few scraps of bread and a box with some smears of white cheese still inside” as they scrambled through a pile of rubbish bags at the foot of a destroyed building in Gaza City, Al Jazeera reports.
Islam Abu Taeima picked off soggy bits from a piece of bread and put the dry part in her sack. The mother said she will take what she found back to the school where she and hundreds of other families live, to serve it to her five children.
“We’re dying of hunger. If we don’t eat, we’ll die.”
Abu Taeima says her family can’t afford anything in the market, where prices have skyrocketed for the little food that remains on sale. She says she has tried going to charity kitchens, but every time, they run out of food before she gets any.
“People are struggling, and no one is going to be generous with you. So collecting from the trash is better,” Al Jazeera quoted her as saying.
