Asma is a French teacher in the Palestinian enclave: despite the bombings, she did not flee to the south of the enclave as requested by Israel. She tells Franceinfo about her daily life.
“All the time, we have bombings, attacks, planes around us… It’s too difficult. Especially at night, it’s terrible.” This is how Asma, a French teacher, sums up her daily life in Gaza, punctuated by the incessant and intensified bombings of the Israeli army.
In the Gaza Strip, food is arriving in trickles, while humanitarian aid is also having difficulty entering the enclave Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Gaza is now a “battlefield”. Despite repeated calls from the Israeli army, Asma still cannot bring herself to leave Gaza. This Palestinian, French teacher, and her family are therefore at the heart of the conflict.
For three weeks, the electricity and water have been cut off, and this is a real challenge for Asma, especially since her young nephews live with her. “Every day, we think about what we are going to be able to eat, how we are going to get water, what we are going to do with the little ones…”
“We can eat anything, but the little ones can’t: they don’t understand what war means, what a lack of products means.”
Asma, resident of Gazaat franceinfo
Getting supplies is now an activity that takes up a good part of one’s days, with no guarantee of finding food. “To get bread, we have to go to the bakery and stay almost seven hours. We can’t find fruit or even vegetables, cheese, jam… simple things. And even if we can find them, it’s too expensive”, regrets Asma. In stores, prices have, in fact, been multiplied by three or even four.
With sadness, this French teacher herself admits: the hope of improvement is now foreign to her.