(25 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 24 June 2024
1. Women and children carrying their containers and gathering to get cooked food from a charitable organization
2. Various of worker filling people’s bowls with cooked food
3. Various of children carrying their bowls and waiting to fill it with food
4. Various of workers filling women and children’s bowls with food
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yassin Khodor, displaced resident from Rafah, father of seven children:
"The conditions are difficult. There is no aid or anything. Thank God, in Rafah, we used to help people but here in Khan Younis, we were displaced from Rafah to Khan Younis and we did not find anything except for the charity. We come here everyday to eat from the charity."
6. Workers filling bowls with cooked food for children and men
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kifaya Mohammed, displaced resident from Gaza City:
"Economic conditions are very, very difficult and we are suffering from extreme poverty and hunger. Prices are very high, and some goods are not available. Children here suffer from acute malnutrition."
8. Various of children carrying bowls full of food and leaving
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kifaya Mohammed, displaced resident from Gaza City:
"We totally rely on charity because of course we have no wood or cooking gas or fuel or goods."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip – 24 June 2024
10. Various of vehicle unloading a truckload of flour
11. Various of workers carrying bags of flour and placing it on a cart
12. Various of people carrying bags of flour and leaving
13. Various of people gathering to get bags of flour
STORYLINE:
Scores of people gathered outside a charity warehouse in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis to get their meals amid worsening humanitarian situation across the Palestinian enclave.
Women, men and children had their pots filled with stew, with some of them saying that charity handouts became the only way to get some food.
"Economic conditions are very, very difficult and we are suffering from extreme poverty and hunger,” said Kifaya Mohammed, a displaced woman from Gaza City.
Some 80% of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million Palestinians have fled their homes since the start of the 8-month war, with many relocating multiple times.
Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza has killed more than 37,000 people, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count.
Palestinians are facing widespread hunger because the war has largely cut off the flow of food, medicine and other supplies.
U.N. agencies say over 1 million in Gaza could experience the highest level of starvation by mid-July.
Israel launched the war after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250.
The war destroyed tens of thousands of housing units leaving many people living in tents or schools.
AP video shot by Mohammad Janjouh and Abd Kareem Hana
Production by Waffa Shurafa
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