Scavenging…

Women and children are scavenging for food among mounds of trash in parts of the Gaza Strip, a UN official said on Friday.  Ajith Sunghay, head of the UN Human Rights office for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, expressed concern for the rising level of hunger in Gaza.  “I was particularly alarmed by the prevalence of hunger,” Sunghay said. “Acquiring basic necessities has become a daily, dreadful struggle for survival.”

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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