Monica Alba is a White House correspondent for NBC News.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Hani Almadhoun was watching his family in Gaza slowly starve and knew he had to do something. From thousands of miles away, and increasingly frustrated with the lack of humanitarian aid reaching Palestinians, he worked with his younger brother Mahmoud, trapped in the warzone, to create a small family soup kitchen. Famine is imminent in Gaza, where most of the population is already facing “catastrophic” levels of hunger, according to a UN-backed report.
“Our children were starving to death,” a 45-year-old Gazan woman receiving a hot meal told NBC News. “They go to sleep hungry, and they wake up hungry.” Hani has been able to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars online, which then goes directly to his family in Gaza so they can purchase food items locally at a premium.
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