Palestinian mothers express hope and fear on Mother's Day
Rajaa Jendiya’s husband was killed by Israeli forces on 14 March, in the latest “flour massacre” to afflict Gaza.
Aged 29, Jendiya was suddenly now a single parent to their young three children.
With no milk available and the last bag of wheat flour her husband brought home before his death running out, the Palestinian mother is grappling with the challenge of how to feed her family.
“I found myself responsible alone for these three. Before my husband was martyred, I did not think about how I would get them food: he used to go out at the beginning of the day and come back at night with whatever he found,” Jendiya, a resident of Shujaiya neighbourhood in the east of Gaza City, told Middle East Eye, as the Arab world marked Mother’s Day.
“I cannot rely on anyone, my brothers-in-law have evacuated to Rafah [in southern Gaza] and my only brother is trapped [by the Israeli army] near the Shifa Hospital. I have no one and I need to recover from the shock of losing my husband as soon as possible so I can think about how to feed my children.”
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