The Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) based in Bournemouth have run a soup kitchen in Gaza for nine months.
A soup kitchen was set up by the PSM in February this year and they provided the very basics such as baby formula, lentils and flour for bread.
The soup kitchen aims to provide Palestinians with one meal a day in the evening.
Feda Shahin, secretary general of the Palestine Solidarity Movement said that the organisation will keep going until starvation in Gaza ends.
“We brought a few boxes of oranges, and we had to cut the oranges. Four people had to share one orange and at the end of the day people were collecting the peels just to add to their soup,” she added.
Famine was officially declared in Gaza in August this year by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system.
For the six months between February and the beginning of October the PSM could not buy any animal protein like meat or chicken.
When the ceasefire came into effect the organisation had managed to buy some chicken.
Ms Shahin said: “Everyone roughly had around 70 grams of chicken, but this was the first piece of animal protein they had in months.”
“Sometimes the soup is too watery. We used to have to mix animal feed in with the flour to make some bread.”
PSM has also staged protests around Bournemouth with one of their more recent demonstrations being the ‘pots and pans’ protest in Bournemouth Square.
The organisation has also staged Red Lines for Gaza in multiple locations around the country this year.
The Red Line is a symbolic representation of the belief that certain actions, specifically violations of human rights, should not be crossed.
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