In stampeding hungry crowd, two boys wait in vain for bread
As fears of starvation mount across of Gaza while Israel's war with Hamas rumbles on, in the city of Khan Younis, people hoping for bread crowd around a bakery.
Flies buzz around a little blond boy, landing on his face and body as he tries to drink from a plastic bag containing orange ice.
The 3-year-old in a frayed and holey T-shirt, appears unfazed by the destruction and dust, remnants of what was once a functioning store, now reduced to rubble in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis.
Crouching next to his brother, Ibrahim, 10, wipes his bare right foot with a piece of paper before helping the toddler take a sip from the bag of ice.
Pulling his brother close with his left hand, he holds the plastic to his brother’s mouth with his right, allowing him drink, before taking a sip himself.
“We came here to get bread for the house,” Ibrahim told an NBC News crew on Wednesday, adding that his family had 11 people. They did not appear to have any loaves.
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