It is a Sunday evening and I am shopping online. But there is a difference. I am looking for baby formula — in Gaza.

I am willing to buy as much as we can find, I tell Abdullah. He is the partner of our Olive Kids charity in Gaza, trying to support 1000 children on the edge of life and death in a cage closed off from the outside world and international aid by the Israeli military, in what some people have decided to call a “war”.

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On Tuesday morning, my Gaza shopper is back in touch. There is no formula to be had.

A $2 bag of flour now costs over US$500, if it can be found. Our partner’s warehouse is nearly empty and yet it was raided, like many others, as starvation is fast-tracked in the chaos created by Israel’s offensive.

This is how delivering aid in Gaza works. Plans constantly change, chasing disappearing supplies before they are gone.

Yet it can be worse. Sometimes you have the supplies and the children who are gone.  Last month, four children from the Jundieh family were killed with their mother. Ahmed (7), Mohammed (9), Warda (11) and Firas (13) were part of our Olive Kids........

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