Gaza: The heartbreaking cry of Mohamed, 11 years old – “I ate sand because I had nothing”

Mohamed Al-Dharbi, 11, walked eight hours with his father to reach a point of distribution of flour in Gaza-Ville. After an exhausting wait, he managed to obtain two kilos of flour – before being attacked by thieves who stripped him of everything.

In front of a journalist’s camera, Mohamed delivers an overwhelming testimony: “We have no flour in Gaza. Every day, for 24 hours, we are told that trucks will arrive. We come, we wait, and there is nothing. We eat sand. We have no food. Have mercy on us. “Giving a gesture of his hands to illustrate a tiny piece of bread, he adds:” A bread like that, it costs 20 shekels. »» Or almost 5 euros For a bite of bread – a derisory price elsewhere, but out of reach here, where famine has become a deadly routine.

Then he explains what pushed him to speak: “I saw the journalist film and asked him to transmit my message to the world: that I was stolen, that I ate sand because I had no flour, and that I was so depressed that I shouted and ate sand. Mohamed’s cry is not just a complaint. It is that of a hungry, humiliated, broken child. It is the reflection of a people trapped by an open -air genocide, where hunger, fear and indifference slowly strangle a population already on their knees.