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When saving your pet comes with guilt: The reality of starvation in Gaza

Mera Aladam · Middle East Eye
Published 23 Oct 2026, 2:05 pm·52 min ago·1 min read
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When saving your pet comes with guilt: The reality of starvation in Gaza In the latest episode of The Gaza Podcast, Palestinian journalist and human rights defender Maha Hussaini introduces her cat Tom, a fellow genocide survivor. "He couldn’t understand the starvation, the occupation, the blockade or the genocide," Hussaini said. Having moved from one shelter to another throughout the war, Tom suffered an eye injury from a soot-covered pot and saw his weight drop in half during the peak of starvation in Gaza. Maha shares the emotional reality of trying to keep a pet alive when food was…

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