内容摘要：And on that note, as old photos from 25 years of Bridget’s life fly by during closing credits, it’s hard not to feel like she’s family — and to be more than a little proud of how she found her way.

And on that note, as old photos from 25 years of Bridget’s life fly by during closing credits, it’s hard not to feel like she’s family — and to be more than a little proud of how she found her way.

Islam Abu Taeima, a 40-year-old mother of five, right, and her 9-year-old daughter Waed walk back to their tent after searching for food in a pile of garbage in Gaza City, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)Islam Abu Taeima, a 40-year-old mother of five, right, and her 9-year-old daughter Waed walk back to their tent after searching for food in a pile of garbage in Gaza City, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

It’s still not common, but now people picking food from trash are occasionally seen. Some come out after dark because of the shame.“I feel sorry for myself because I’m educated and despite that I’m eating from the trash,” said Abu Taeima, who has a bachelor’s degree in English from Al-Quds Open University in Gaza.Her family struggled to get by even before the war, she said. Abu Taeima has worked for a short time in the past as a secretary for UNRWA, the main U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees and the biggest employer in Gaza. She also worked as a reader for blind people. Her husband worked briefly as a security guard for UNRWA. He was wounded in the 2021 war between Hamas and Israel and has been unable to work since.

Israel cut off all food, medicine and other supplies to Gaza on March 2. It said the blockade and its subsequent resumption of the war aimed to pressure Hamas to release the hostages it still holds. But warnings of famine have stoked international criticism of Israel.It allowed several hundred trucks into Gaza last week. But much of it hasn’t reached the population, either aid trucks were looted or because of Israeli military restrictions on aid workers’ movements, especially in northern Gaza, according to the U.N. Aid groups say the amount of supplies allowed in is nowhere near enough to meet mounting needs.

Abu Taeima and her family fled their home in the Shati refugee camp on the northern side of Gaza City in November 2023. At the time she and one of her children were wounded in a tank shelling, she said.

They first headed to the strip’s southernmost city of Rafah where they sheltered in a tent for five months. They then moved to the central town of Deir al-Balah a year ago when Israel first invaded Rafah.The best way: Cold water immersion. Basically, “you drop them in a water bucket,” Salas said.

But those aren’t always around. So emergency rooms pump patients with cool fluids intravenously, spray them with misters, put ice packs in armpits and groins and place them on a chilling mat with cold water running inside it.Sometimes it doesn’t work.

“We call it the silent killer because it’s not this kind of visually dramatic event,” Jay said. “It’s insidious. It’s hidden.”This story has corrected to “humidity,” rather than “temperature” in a mention of how people’s function is affected by humidity.