Karim is a trained nurse in his early 20s from Gaza City, displaced 12 times and a survivor of an Israeli strike in Rafah. He lives in the ruins of his former home with his parents and four brothers. Severe food scarcity forces the family to survive on a single pita and a bowl of lentil soup per day. Small moments of joy came from buying sugar to make cakes and sharing them. Drones filmed a 16-year-old girl while showering and broadcast threats in broken Arabic, causing deep anguish. Food distributions are likened to a deadly lottery with long, fearful waits.
3 August 2025 Today, I have to do something a bit exciting. I'm going to a food distribution point for the first time, what I call the death lottery. I'm leaving in about 30 minutes. I've said goodbye to my family and hugged them all. You never know. Why risk walking toward your own death? It's not by choice. For many days now each of us has been living on a single pita bread and a bowl of lentil soup per day. That's it.
Yesterday those disgusting monsters sent a drone over our neighbourhood at night. They filmed a 16-year-old girl while she was showering. The houses are so destroyed here that people use plastic sheets or tarps for bathrooms, with no roofs we have no privacy. The drone had a loudspeaker and the voice of a soldier speaking broken Arabic crackled through: I took pictures and videos of you. Soon they'll be online, ya sharmouta [bitch in Arabic]. That absolutely broke me.
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