(1 Jan 2025)
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Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip – 1 January 2025
1. Various of children and women sitting next to wall waiting for charity to start to distribute food
2. Various of children and women carrying their empty containers and waiting to fill them with cooked food
3. Various of charity workers filling cooked rice in displaced people’s containers
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Adham Shaheen, displaced from Gaza City:
"We have been in the war for a year and four months. Because of the high prices, even the people who used to be able to cook and eat in their homes are now unable to cook and buy (food). Everyone is turning to charities. Even the charities have become very crowded because the number (people) is large, and there are charities that have closed due to a lack of support. There are charities that distribute small quantities that are not enough, and people have go back with nothing."
5. Various of charity workers putting cooked rice in displaced people’s pots and containers
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Noha Balata, displaced from Gaza City:
"We are suffering because this is a very difficult situation and one does not have the ability to buy or deal with the inflation that we are seeing. So we resort to charities in order to get food but of course, we need healthy food, more food and for bread to be available every day because there is a flour crisis."
7. Workers collecting leftover rice in the pot and putting it in people’s bowls
8. Various of displaced people gathering to get cooked food
STORYLINE:
Displaced Palestinians in central Gaza are relying on charity kitchens as their sole food provider due to the lack of food aid and skyrocketing prices as the nearly 15-month war between Israel and Hamas rages on.
Associated Press footage shows long crowded queues of children carrying pots and containers waiting for their share of rice – the only food item served at the charity kitchen in Deir al-Balah on Wednesday.
Standing at the charity kitchen was Um Adham Shaheen, a displaced woman from Gaza City.
She said that those who could buy food and cook in their homes can no longer do so because of the high prices.
"Everyone is turning to charities. Even the charities have become very crowded because the number (people) is large, and there are charities that have closed due to a lack of support,” she said.
The U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, UNRWA said on Monday that 80% of households in Gaza have at least one child who is going without food.
The agency added that more than 96% of children, pregnant and breastfeeding women lack adequate nutrition.
"We resort to charities in order to get food but of course, we need healthy food, more food and for bread to be available every day," said Noha Balata, a displaced woman from Gaza City.
The war began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and abducting around 250. About 100 hostages are still held in Gaza, at least a third of whom are believed to be dead.
Israel’s air and ground offensive has killed over 45,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
It says women and children make up more than half the fatalities but does not say how many of those killed were militants.
The Israeli military says it only targets militants and blames Hamas for civilian deaths because its fighters operate in dense residential areas. The army says it has killed 17,000 militants, without providing evidence.
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