Mothers worry and become anxious when one's child hasn't eaten one meal. One meal in one day. We buy groceries, we stock, we cook, we plan ahead, we negotiate with fussy children to finish their plates, eat the last morsel, not to waste food, that wasting food is a sin. We will save the best morsels, the best for our children. Feeding our children is one of the main jobs we have as mothers. Imagine the suffering of Palestinian mothers, of Palestinian fathers who are seeing their children starve to death. Imagine the plight, the suffering. Imagine they cannot buy groceries, stock, cook, plan ahead and feed their children with their own fingers, coax them, promise them their favourite foods and do what mothers and fathers love doing. Making sure one's child is well fed is a satisfaction, joy. It's a job done. Instead they watch helplessly as their children starve, beg for food, wither away. This is a Western imposed famine and genocide.
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