Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><strong>“Food Has Become a Memory”: My Hunger Diary in Gaza</strong></p><p><em>A 21-year-old writer living in Gaza documents her daily life under the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> –Israeli program of mass starvation</em> </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/TheIntercept" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheIntercept</span></a><br>Sara Awad<br>July 26 2025, 5:00am </p><blockquote><blockquote><p>This is my attempt to document what it feels like when your stomach rumbles, becoming louder than your thoughts. </p><p>Here in <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>, we are enduring the suffocating siege imposed by the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israeli</span></a> government in order to make us starve, in a deliberate attack against us Gazans. </p><p>Today marks the 89th day of the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/starvation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>starvation</span></a> war. I woke up with a dizzy feeling in my head as I had not eaten anything since yesterday morning. My stomach needed its sense of normalcy. </p><p>My family is making every possible effort to fill our hungry stomachs, but I can see their powerlessness on their faces. My thoughts go immediately to my youngest siblings...</p></blockquote></blockquote><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/07/26/gaza-starvation-hunger-diary/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/07/26/ga</span><span class="invisible">za-starvation-hunger-diary/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopStarvingGaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopStarvingGaza</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MiddleEast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEast</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/WestAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestAsia</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>