But Zein, 13, would later suffer a cruel fate in Gaza, where more than 2 million people have endured more than six months of food shortages and malnutrition.
US officials have said that that famine is already beginning to take hold in parts of the besieged coastal strip, where Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas have been fighting for more than six months.
The grandfather, standing by a large pool of wastewater, recalled how Zein would swim in a pond to get a meal from the air drops, and how he should have been at school instead.
But with mediators failing to secure a truce and Israel and Hamas braced for further war in Gaza, which has been rendered a wasteland by the fighting, his luck eventually ran out.
The war in Gaza began when Hamas militants attacked Israel on 7 October, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostage, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel responded with a fierce offensive that has killed more than 33,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health authorities, and turned much of the densely populated strip, home to 2.3 million people, into rubble, twisted steel and dust.
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But Zein, 13, would later suffer a cruel fate in Gaza, where more than 2 million people have endured more than six months of food shortages and malnutrition.
US officials have said that that famine is already beginning to take hold in parts of the besieged coastal strip, where Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas have been fighting for more than six months.
The grandfather, standing by a large pool of wastewater, recalled how Zein would swim in a pond to get a meal from the air drops, and how he should have been at school instead.
But with mediators failing to secure a truce and Israel and Hamas braced for further war in Gaza, which has been rendered a wasteland by the fighting, his luck eventually ran out.
The war in Gaza began when Hamas militants attacked Israel on 7 October, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 200 hostage, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel responded with a fierce offensive that has killed more than 33,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health authorities, and turned much of the densely populated strip, home to 2.3 million people, into rubble, twisted steel and dust.
The original article contains 446 words, the summary contains 194 words. Saved 57%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!