The Dreadnought

The Dreadnought

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'Maybe we'll eat sand'

What starvation is like

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James Robins
Aug 04, 2025
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IN APRIL, THE ELEVEN members of Mariam al-Najjar’s family still had some canned food. Peas and carrots, boiled with spices. They would eat this makeshift stew with rice, under the tarpaulin of their makeshift home in a makeshift tent city outside Khan Younis. “We can’t get anything that provides any protein or nutrie…

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