Azza's children are not children without they are actually men

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Monday , 26 February 2024 13:21 PM GMT

In certain places at certain times, just surviving is something a boy should be proud of - not to mention going out every day to find food that keeps your family from going hungry.

Every morning, 11-year-old Mohammed zaaroub goes out to the southern Gaza City of Rafah on a mission.

He takes a large plastic container and heads to schools that have become refugee centers, and to makeshift roadside camps where people like his family are suffering but may still find something to feed a stranger's child.

Muhammad also goes to hospitals where the wounded arrive at all times, and in any other place where there may be a pot boiling over an open fire.

"When I come back to my family with this food, they feel happy and we all eat together,"he says.

"Sometimes I go empty-handed and feel sad."

Mohammed is the eldest of four children and lives with his mother, father and brothers in a flimsy shelter made of plastic and tarpaulin.

His father, Khaled, wanders around Rafah in search of odd jobs to collect five shekels (about 1.38 dollars; 1.08 dollars) to buy diapers for their two-month-old daughter huwayda.

This is because of the very difficult conditions that the people of Gaza are living in, but God will help them, God willing