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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Ruwaida Amer

How to distract a starving child: Hunger in Rafah amid Israel’s war on Gaza

A Palestinian child looks on while waiting to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food, as Israel's war on Gaza continues, in Rafah on February 20, 2024 [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]

Rafah, Gaza – A tiny little girl called Wafaa is sitting in front of a tent in Tal as-Sultan, playing in the sand listlessly as she cries with hunger.

It is difficult to tell how old she is given her emaciated frame, but her mother, Tahrir Baraka, 36, tells Al Jazeera that Wafaa is two years old.

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