For months, Anas Baba and Pierre's producer in Gaza has been talking to people like Nadia

Al-Masri, whose families were facing starvation amid Israel's blockade on the territory.

Hunger, she says, is when your children cried themselves to sleep. They are too hungry.

Her family of 12 was living in a shelter of worn tarps, and Baba found her making bread

out of crushed lentils and pasta.

Why are you punishing everyone? She asks, what do we have to do with Hamas?

It's not right to make the entire population more than 2 million people suffer, she adds.

Israel bans international journalists from independent access to Gaza.

But Baba is from Gaza.

And in the 21 months he's been reporting on the war, he's also been living it.

He was eating just one small meal a day and rationing his food supplies until those supplies ran out several weeks ago.

I cannot find the basics, just like flour, cooking oil, lentils.

Over the war, he has lost a third of his body weight,

and he's been observing what severe hunger does to a person's body.

Women faint in the street, children faint in the street.

Hunger is a little bit of an addiction.

Once you feel that your stomach, your brain, your body is craving something,

you will not be afraid of anything and you can do anything to bring food for your children

and for yourself.

Israel still tightly restricts the entry of food into Gaza. The food it does allow in is

mostly distributed through new sites run by

private American contractors. The group is called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF. It

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