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Gaza families eat grass as Israel locks border
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Marie Colvin - December 14, 2008

AS a convoy of blue-and-white United Nations trucks loaded with food
waited last night for Israeli permission to enter Gaza, Jindiya Abu
Amra and her 12-year-old daughter went scrounging for the wild grass
their family now lives on ,...

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      “We had one meal today - khobbeizeh,” said Abu Amra, 43, showing the
      leaves of a plant that grows along the streets of Gaza. “Every day,
      I wake up and start looking for wood and plastic to burn for fuel
      and I beg. When I find nothing, we eat this grass.”

      Abu Amra and her unemployed husband have seven daughters and a son.
      Their tiny breeze-block house has had no furniture since they burnt
      the last cupboard for heat.

      “I can’t remember seeing a fruit,” said Rabab, 12, who goes with her
      mother most mornings to scavenge. She is dressed in a tracksuit top
      and holed jeans, and her feet are bare.

      Conditions for most of the 1.5m Gazans have deteriorated
      dramatically in the past month, since a truce between Israel and
      Hamas, the ruling Islamist party, broke down.

      Israel says it will open the borders again when Hamas stops
      launching rockets at southern Israel. Hamas says it will crack down
      on the rocket launchers when Israel opens the borders.

      The fragile truce technically ends this Thursday, and there have
      been few signs it will be renewed. Nobody knows how to resolve the
      stalemate. Secret talks are under way through Egyptian
      intermediaries, although both sides deny any contact.

      Israel controls the borders and allows in humanitarian supplies only
      sporadically. Families had electricity for six hours a day last
      week. Cooking gas was available only through the illegal tunnels
      that run into Egypt, and by last week had jumped in price from 80
      shekels per canister (£14) to 380 shekels (£66).

      The UN, which has responsibility for 1m refugees in Gaza, is in
      despair. “The economy has been crushed and there are no imports or
      exports,” said John Ging, director of its relief and works agency.

      “Two weeks ago, for the first time in 60 years, we ran out of food,”
      he said. “We used to get 70 to 80 trucks per day, now we are getting
      15 trucks a day, and only when the border opens. We’re living hand
      to mouth.”

      He has four days of food in stock for distribution to the most
      desperate - and no idea whether Israel will reopen the border. The
      Abu Amra family may have to eat wild grass for the foreseeable
      future.

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