Obeida, an 18-year-old from Gaza, was killed while attempting to retrieve humanitarian aid for his family facing hunger. His family, displaced multiple times, lived in a tent at a school yard in Gaza City. On the day of his death, he hoped to gather chickpeas to prepare a meal for his recently married sister, using the limited resources available at a food distribution center. His actions symbolized the desperation and challenges faced by many families in Gaza under occupation.
Obeida was killed in these Hunger Games that Israel is making us play in the real world. In Gaza, the game consists of asking young people to fetch humanitarian aid, with the risk of being killed if they go too far to the right or to the left, in a space whose limits only the occupier knows.
Obeida went almost every day to try his luck at a distribution center organized by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation... hoping to bring back a bag of flour or a food parcel for his family.
On that particular day, his eldest sister Bara, who had gotten married a month or two earlier, came to visit her family in their tent. He wanted to give them to his sister who was very fond of them.
Obeida was keen to make his qdama as a symbolic act. And to get a bag of flour, to bake bread for the bride's return.
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