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"❤️‍🩹“Half a bag of flour.” That is what cost Umm Mohammad her 13-year-old son Mohammad and later her husband Salah in the same place in western Rafah Displaced from the north to the south, the family fled their tent when Israeli occupation tanks suddenly advanced and opened fire. They left everything behind, including half a sack of flour. With the father injured and no income, famine tightened its grip. Mohammad insisted on returning with his sister Aseel to retrieve the flour. As they neared their old tent, a tank opened fire. Aseel watched her brother shot and young men around them torn apart. She was wounded herself, hiding and watching as the tank ran over her brother’s body. Hours later, bleeding and screaming, she reached help. Her mother learned that Mohammad had been killed. Weeks later, driven by famine and soaring prices, Salah returned to the same spot to retrieve what remained. “The tank is gone,” he told his wife. He never came back. He was found in the same place, martyred with half a sack of flour beside him. For two months his body lay unreachable. He was buried in the same grave as his son. Today, Aseel still wakes screaming. She says she still sees the blood, the bodies, her brother’s final moments. A bag of flour became the price of two lives in a famine-stricken Gaza under Israeli occupation fire. osama.kahlout (IG)" - Source

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