A meal fit for a famine – Mondoweiss

“I can’t buy him milk every day,” my friend Rania told me as she held her firstborn child, Kareem, in her arms. He was barely past his first few weeks of life, and Rania had been desperately searching for a can of baby formula for him, to no avail. She was unable to nurse him herself, because she wasn’t eating enough to produce enough milk. 

We were standing in the middle of Nuseirat market in central Gaza, a once-bustling center where essentials were bought and the scent…