starvation is everywhere
Submitted by antarchi on November 29, 2007 - 01:56.
'Why do so many of the children have distended bellies?'
'Because they are desperately hungry. Before this siege of Sharon's, the Palestinian family was surviving, even doing OK. It's my job to talk to people and find out who is suffering, and I must be frank with you: starvation is everywhere. Families almost never see meat; if they are lucky, they will get one chicken every fortnight. They don't know fruit, and this is a land of fruit. The children get tea and sugar, and little else. Almost all of them are suffering nutritional aneamia. Most of the tap water is controled by the settlers and what comes to us is undrinkable.'