+972 reports:

From his displacement tent in western Deir al-Balah, Tayseer Obeid has spent the past week scanning the skies over central Gaza, noting the time and direction of aircraft dropping aid.

His family of 12 hasn’t received proper humanitarian assistance in six months. To feed them, he planted small patches of molokhia, eggplant, and pumpkin around his and his relatives’ tent. But the crops have been repeatedly destroyed — including at the end of July, when the Israeli army razed the tent camp where his mother was sheltering, after forcing residents to evacuate. Since their home in Beit Lahia was bombed in 2024, they have been displaced 11 times.

“We need food, sugar, milk, diapers for babies — we need everything,” Obeid told +972. “But most importantly, we need white flour to feed our children. They don’t understand what man-made famine is. They just scream and cry until they eat or sleep.

To support his family, the 37-year-old launched a fundraising campaign and began documenting his daily struggles on Instagram. “I buy around three kilos of white flour each week. One kilo makes about 12 loaves of bread. I divide just two loaves among my family of 12 for each meal. I can’t afford more — prices in Gaza are higher than in the most expensive places in Europe,” he said.

Obeid has also tried repeatedly to get food from aid trucks and Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution centers, but usually returns empty-handed, overwhelmed by the crush of starving people. “The aid that enters Gaza is not enough to meet even our most basic needs, and much of it is stolen,” he explained. [Continue reading…]