Israel's 10-month genocidal war has left most Gazans destitute, forcing them to share shoes and even wear the same outfit for months on end. Safaa Yassin has dressed her child in the same white bodysuit for many months, an all-too-familiar tale in the besieged Palestinian territory. "When I was pregnant, I dreamed of dressing my daughter in beautiful clothes.
Today, I have nothing to put on her," says Yassin, one of thousands of Palestinians displaced from Gaza City. "I never thought that one day I wouldn't be able to dress my children," says the 38-year-old, now living in al-Mawasi, a coastal area designated as a humanitarian zone by Israeli forces. "But the few clothes I found before evacuating to the south were either the wrong size or not suitable for the season," she adds, as Gaza bakes in summertime temperatures of 30-plus degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) everyday.
Finding clothing – any clothing – has become increasingly difficult for the 2.4 million people living in the territory besieged by Israel. Gaza once had a thriving textiles industry but since the war began on Oct.
7 with the Hamas incursion , it has received just a trickle of goods. Faten Juda also struggles to dress her 15-month-old son, Adam, who is squeezed into ill-fitting pajamas, his bare arms and legs sticking out from the tight fabric. "He's growing every day and his clothes don't fit him anymore, but I can't find any others," the 30-year-old tells Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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