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Gaza journalist: Starvation feels like a slower, more painful death than the bombs

It has been 381 days since Israel launched its war on Gaza, and Gaza-based journalist Ahmed Dremly feels like he has become an expert in the struggle to stay alive.

"For readers who have not yet endured this sort of grim living, allow me to describe what you could expect," he writes for Middle East Eye.

"I'm using my own experiences as an example, but they are near-universal for the more than two million citizens of Gaza."

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