NORAH O’DONNELL: Tonight, Israel and the U.S. are pushing back on new accusations of a genocide in Gaza. Amnesty International made the case in a scathing report. The world's largest human life group claims Israel is weaponizing military aid by preventing deliveries of supplies. CBS’s Debora Patta reports on one woman's struggle to find food in a war zone.
DEBORA PATTA: Each morning, Jamalat Wadi heads out in search of food for her family of 13. This is what her life is like every day now. Angry crowds fighting for a precious lifeline. Bread. It's like gold. And almost as expensive, at $10 a bag up from just $1 before the war.
“We need to eat, we are exhausted,” pleaded Wadi, “stop this war and let the aid in.” Once again, she returns to her makeshift tent empty-handed. On this night, all they have is a single bowl of lentils to share. The youngest eat first. In the north, Israel has allowed virtually no aid in for two months, turning down 82 of the 91 delivery requests made by the U.N. And in the south, there’s a trickle getting in, but it's nowhere near enough. Hunger has spread everywhere. Here, a sea of kids jostle outside a soup kitchen, all starving. Everyone has to pitch in. 11-year-old Zeina Juha's task was to wake up at dawn and come to this bakery to try and get bread for her family. One day, she did not come home.
Young Zeina had been crushed and trampled to death in a crowd like this one. "Why did she have to die in such an ugly way?" Her mother Karima said. "She was covered in bruises, red and blue all over."
"The world looks at us and Palestinians and all they see are terrorists," her father Ahmed said. "We are not terrorists. We just want to survive." He will never forgive himself for not being able to protect his daughter. Debora Patta, CBS News, East Jerusalem.
