"People who dare to go out rush to supermarkets to try to buy as much food as possible in anticipation of further and more intense fighting in the coming days, " said Antoine Grand, head of the ICRC office in Gaza.

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Writing in the latest issue of The Lancet, they suggest that a lack of strength or a lack of friends or family prevented some people from being able to go out to buy food.

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They allowed planters' sons to buy their way out of serving and resisted desperate measures by Jefferson Davis's government to raise food and other supplies from the plantations.

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