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Widows in Gaza face starvation as food supplies dwindle
Image credit: Shehab Wire (EN)
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Amina Abu Ajwa, a 36-year-old widow, inspects the flour she keeps beside her, calculating how many days the meager quantity will last while feeding her four children and estimating how many loaves of bread she can produce before supplies run out, Shehab Wire reported. The daily rationing reflects the severe food crisis gripping Gaza's widowed households.
Widows across the territory confront mounting hardship as the collapse of economic activity and deepening humanitarian shortages leave them without reliable means to secure basic meals. Many lack household breadwinners to generate income, forcing them to depend on increasingly scarce relief supplies and their own depleted resources to keep their families fed.
