(2 Dec 2024)
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Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip – 2 December 2024
1. Various of woman baking bread in clay oven inside tent, people waiting for bread to be ready
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wafaa Attar, displaced Palestinian: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 3++
"People used to come to me to bake 70 or 80 loaves. Now they come with 10 or 15 because a kilo of flour costs 35 shekels ($9.60) and is only enough for 10 loaves. They divide them among their children, one loaf every day."
3. Various woman baking bread in clay oven
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 2 December 2024
4. Various of woman baking bread, children waiting near her
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nahla Abu Daher, displaced Palestinian: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 6++
"We stand in line (to get bread) while people are dying. There are no bakeries and there is no flour to be handed to us. And there is no food for the children. The flour has completely run out."
6. Woman baking bread
7. Child eating bread
STORYLINE:
Displaced Palestinians in Gaza have been barely able to secure enough bread for their families due to high flour prices and a U.N. agency decision to halt aid shipments through Gaza’s main crossing following looting.
Footage by The Associated Press on Monday showed Wafaa Attar, a displaced woman from Beit Lahyia, using a makeshift oven to bake loaves of pita bread in Deir al-Balah.
Displaced people in Deir al-Balah faced significant food insecurity due to a flour shortage and the lack of aid in November.
"People used to come to me to bake 70 or 80 loaves. Now they come with 10 or 15 because a kilo of flour costs 35 shekels ($9.60) and is only enough for 10 loaves," Attar said.
Last month, bakeries in Deir al-Balah shuttered for several days because they didn’t receive flour deliveries, pushing thousands to starvation as families heavily rely on makeshift charitable kitchens and bakeries to survive.
Some displaced people reported they can only secure one meal a day for their families.
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Sunday it is halting aid deliveries through the main cargo crossing into the war-ravaged Gaza Strip because of the threat of armed gangs who have looted convoys.
The U.N. agency’s decision could worsen Gaza’s humanitarian crisis as a second cold, rainy winter sets in, with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in squalid tent camps and reliant on international aid.
Experts already warned of famine in the north, which Israeli forces have almost completely isolated since early October.
The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 250 hostage.
Some 100 captives are still held inside Gaza, around two-thirds believed to be alive.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 44,429 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many of the dead were combatants.
Israel says it has killed over 17,000 militants, without providing evidence.
The war has destroyed vast areas of the coastal enclave and displaced 90% of the population of 2.3 million, often multiple times.
AP video shot by Abed Al-Kareem Hana and Mohammad Jahjouh
Production: Wafaa Shurafa
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