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How one hungry family gets through one day in Gaza
['Ghada Abdulfattah', 'Deir Al-Balah', 'Occupied Palestinian Territories']
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DEIR AL-BALAH, Occupied Palestinian TerritoriesAt the end of July, I went to a makeshift tent camp in Deir al-Balah called al-Masmiyya.
The camp is named after al-Masmiyya al-Kabira, a Palestinian village northeast of the Gaza Strip that was depopulated in 1948.
As man-made starvation grips Gaza ever-tighter, I wanted to follow Sahar for a day to observe what she and her family eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and to tell her story.
Sahar and her family heard an explosion just behind them – one of the buildings had been bombed, killing many people.
Now, in her dire search for food, Sahar once found an old, rusty can of peas in the garbage.