(20 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Muwasi area of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 20 May 2024
1. Various of food cooking in pots over burning wood
2. Various of worker preparing food
3. Various of people carrying their containers and waiting to fill it with cooked food
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saad Abdin, who runs the charity:
"People’s need for free food is very urgent because of the siege, because of the war, because of displacement, because of lack of jobs, because of lack of aid, because of lack of money and because cooking gas is not available. There are many reasons such as the lack of vegetables and some types of food in the market. People cannot find these (food products) so we find them, cook food and offer it to people."
5. Various of workers pouring food into displaced people’s containers
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hamed Abu Qamar, displaced from Jabalia:
"We have no food or water so we ask for help and people can see that we cannot eat or eat when it comes to us and food. We cannot find food or water and we take our children to hospitals. This pot will be used to feed 20 people. Some times they fill half of it and some times all of it."
7. Various of workers pouring food to displaced people
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dalal Zaghra, displaced from Shati refugee camp:
"We were in Rafah then came to Khan Younis. Life is difficult because there is nothing here. In Rafah everything was available. We live on canned food that we bring from charities. Had it not been for charities we would have starved to death, me and my grandchildren."
9. Various of people gathering to fill their containers with cooked food
STORYLINE:
Scores of men, women and children stood in line in front of a charity in Muwasi in the southern city of Khan Younis Monday to get some food amid severe shortages in the Gaza Strip as the result of the ongoing war.
People carried pots and plastic containers that were later filled with pasta cooked in tomato sauce from giant pots placed over burning wood amid severe shortages in cooking gas.
Saad Abdin, who runs a charity providing food to the hungry, said the siege and war has made people’s need for food "very urgent."
"People cannot find these (food products) so we find them, cook food and offer it to people," said Abdin.
Hamed Abu Qamar, a displaced person from Jabalia, told AP reporters of his desperation, saying that one pot of food will be used to feed 20 people.
"We have no food or water so we ask for help and people can see that we cannot eat or eat when it comes to us and food. We cannot find food or water and we take our children to hospitals," said Abu Qamar.
The humanitarian situation got worse earlier this month, when Israeli troops started an operation in the southern city of Rafah along the border with Egypt and Israel’s capture of the main border crossing that links the Gaza Strip with Egypt. Rafah was the main point of entry for fuel.
"In Rafah everything was available. We live on canned food that we bring from charities. Had it not been for charities we would have starved to death, me and my grandchildren," said Dalal Zaghra, a displaced person from the Shati refugee camp.
Israel says Rafah is the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza and key to its goal of dismantling the group’s military and governing capabilities and returning scores of hostages Hamas captured in its deadly Oct. 7 attack that triggered the war.
But Hamas has repeatedly regrouped, even in the hardest-hit parts of Gaza.
Around 80% of the population of 2.3 million Palestinians have been displaced within the territory, often multiple times.
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