Shrouq Aila, a freelance journalist based in central Gaza, navigates a city under siege with her toddler by her side to tell the world what’s happening. She does this while she slowly starves. Aila weighed 62 kilograms — approximately 137 pounds — in October 2023. Today, she weighs 47 kilos — or just over 100 pounds. She has been displaced from her home, narrowly survived two deadly airstrikes when her daughter was just an infant, and continues reporting even as famine and exhaustio...
