Mervat Hijazi and her nine children didn¡¯t eat at all on Thursday ¡ª save her underweight baby who had a sachet of peanut paste.

¡°I¡¯m so ashamed of myself for not being able to feed my children,¡± Hijazi said from their tent pitched amid the rubble of Gaza City. ¡°I cry at night when my baby cries and her stomach aches from hunger.¡±

Six-year-old Zaha can¡¯t sleep because of Israel¡¯s bombardment.