Yasmin Eid coughs and covers her face, cooking a small pot of lentils over a fire fed with twigs and scrap paper in the tent she shares with her husband and four young daughters in the Gaza Strip .
It was their only meal Wednesday - it was all they could afford.
"My girls suck on their thumbs because of how hungry they are, and I pat their backs until they sleep," she said.
After being displaced five times , the Eids reside in central Gaza, where aid groups have relatively more access than in the north, which has been largely isolated and heavily destroyed since Israel began waging a renewed offensive against the militant group Hamas in early October. But nearly everyone in Gaza is going hungry these days . In the north experts say a full-blown famine may be underway .
On Thursday, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, accusing them of using 'starvation as a method of warfare" - charges Israel adamantly denies.
