(3 Mar 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 3 March 2025
1. Various of people gathering, people collecting aid
2. Various of workers carrying bags of aid
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Rahim, from Gaza City:
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"It’s Ramadan now and one needs to eat and drink. And when one gets something (aid), he is happy with it, but one needs more because it’s not enough. This is all not enough, it is all insufficient. I mean there was a coupon (aid box) two or three weeks ago. For whom and whom? It is not enough. This is Ramadan."
4. Close of bags of aid
5. Mid of people carrying boxes of aid and leaving
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mona Naif, Palestinian mother of four:
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"This aid represents 99% of our income because my husband is sick, paralyzed. He had a stroke during the war, and we have no income other than the aid."
7. Various of people collecting aid boxes
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khaled Qadat, from Gaza City:
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"Thank God, if it weren’t for God, then the aid… Without it (the aid), one would have suffered a lot. You can see the tragic situation we are in, it’s a war so one can work or anything. I hope to God that (the aid) will continue."
9. Mid of people lined up to receive aid box
STORYLINE:
Palestinians lined up in front of a distribution center in Gaza to receive humanitarian aid on Monday, a day after Israel stopped the entry of all food and other supplies into the enclave after the first phase of the ceasefire deal ended.
Dozens of people queued at a warehouse in Gaza City containing Qatari aid, collecting boxes of food and other supplies.
Almost all of Gaza’s over 2 million people depend on humanitarian assistance.
"This aid represents 99% of our income," said Mona Naïf, a Palestinian mother of four.
"My husband is sick, paralyzed. He had a stroke during the war, and we have no income other than the aid," she added.
The ceasefire’s first phase saw a surge in humanitarian aid after months of growing hunger.
Some complained that the aid that has entered Gaza over the first, six-week phase of the ceasefire was not enough.
"When one gets something (aid), he is happy with it, but one needs more because it’s not enough. This is all not enough, it is all insufficient," said Ahmed Rahim from Gaza City.
Israel faced sharp criticism as it stopped the entry of all food and other supplies into Gaza on Sunday and warned of "additional consequences" for Hamas if the fragile ceasefire isn’t extended.
Mediators Egypt and Qatar accused Israel of violating humanitarian law by using starvation as a weapon.
On Sunday Hamas accused Israel of trying to derail the next phase, hours after its first phase had ended, and called Israel’s decision to cut off aid "a war crime and a blatant attack" on a truce that took a year of negotiations before taking hold in January.
About 600 aid trucks had entered daily since the ceasefire began on Jan. 19, easing fears of famine raised by international experts.
AP video shot by Mohammad Jahjouh
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