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Before the war Gaza fisherman used to return dolphins caught in their net back to the sea but this is now changing.
A Palestinian fisherman caught a dolphin in the Qarara Sea, south of the Gaza Strip, Saturday. Everyone, locally and international as well as those on the social media are talking about this incident especially because of the starvation imposed on the enclave by Israel through its tight blockade.
In a bid to try to deflect their hunger, Gaza fisherman are trying to scrape the narrow parts of the Gaza waters on the Mediterranean. A picture of the Palestinian fisherman, holding the dolphin, which is more than two meters long, have spread on social media.
Dozens of Palestinians gathered around the fisherman to watch the dolphin and take pictures next to it as if its a treasure trove and delight for the hungry.
This incident comes in the context of highlighting the rich environmental diversity in the Gaza Sea, as fishermen documented repeated scenes of dolphins swimming near their boats according to a report in Anadolu.
Before the Israeli war of extermination, fishermen in Gaza used to return dolphins caught in their nets to the sea, but the famine conditions and the Israeli siege imposed on the Strip prompted them this time to take out the dolphin and eat it.
The sector is suffering, in conjunction with Israeli onslaught, from starvation operations created by Israel which tightened the closure of the border crossings on more than two million Palestinians.
The World Food Program states that “hunger is widespread in Gaza” and the organization has only been able to secure a third of the food it needs to support the Palestinians in the Strip, due to the genocide that Israel is committing against the Palestinians now in its 15 months.
Famine has worsened in most areas of the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli blockade, especially in the northern governorate, following the escalation of genocide and starvation to force citizens to flee south.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since 7 October, 2023, leaving more than 156,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and elderly people, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
Israel continues its massacres, ignoring two arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court on 21 November, 2024 against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Galant, for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Palestinians in Gaza according to the Anadolu news agency.
