Kareem and Ayman, 12-year-old twin cousins of U.S. citizen Ghada Tafesh

Gaza-born, new U.S. citizen Ghada Tafesh used to swap recipes and photos of dinner spreads with her aunt Fairouz. Those days are gone. Her 12-year-old twin cousins look up at her from her phone with gaunt, exhausted faces. They have lost a quarter of their body weight.

Fairouz says it’s too dangerous to try to get food directly from the scarce aid trucks. They buy from street hawkers when they can — $20 for a tomato.

“I just hope that people in the United States would see Palestinians in Gaza as individuals rather than numbers,” says Ghada

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