GAZA: Itimad al-Qanou, a Palestinian mother struggling to feed her seven children, feels abandoned by everyone. She sometimes feels that death is the best way to end her family's suffering after a year of war that has turned Gaza into a bombed-out wasteland gripped by hunger. "Let them drop a nuclear bomb and end it. We don't want this life we're living; we are dying slowly. Have mercy on us. Look at these children," said the mother of three boys and four girls aged between eight and 18.