(17 Oct 2024)
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Deir Al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip – 17 October 2024
1. Various of workers cooking pasta with canned vegetables
2. Various of displaced people carrying containers and waiting to fill them with cooked food
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed Abed, displaced man from Gaza City:
"It’s been two weeks since we had enough food for ourselves and our children. A lot of food items disappeared from the markets because the crossings are closed and because of the lack of humanitarian aid entering Gaza. People now come to makeshift kitchens in hopes to find something to eat, because the crossings are closed and because of the lack of humanitarian aid.”
4. Various of workers pouring food to displaced people
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nehad Qaimas, woman displaced from Zuwaida:
“Humanitarian aid decreased recently. There is nothing to eat or drink no matter where we go. There is nothing, unless someone has some stored food that can be cooked whether peas or beans or lentils. We need things that are beneficial to us such as vegetables that would help us and our children,We are tired of legumes and these things that contain preservatives and that are killing us.”
6. Various of workers filling people’s containers with food
7. Various of displaced people waiting for food
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aisha Saliby, woman displaced from Gaza City:
“We used to live a decent life, but now as you can see, we stand at makeshift kitchens to get a plate of food and bread.”
9. Children and women waiting for food
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aisha Saliby, woman displaced from Gaza City:
"We want this war to end. We don’t want things to eat or drink. We want for this war to be over. End the war and let us go back home safely."
11. Various of workers pouring food
12. Various of children getting cooked food
STORYLINE:
The Gaza Strip is still at risk of famine more than a year into the Israel-Hamas war, even as the number of people facing the most extreme level of hunger has declined in recent months, the international authority on hunger crises said Thursday.
The findings come after the United States warned Israel that it might cut off military aid if its ally does not do more to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Over 1.8 million people, or around 86% of Gaza’s population, are experiencing crisis levels of hunger according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
The IPC warned the situation could rapidly deteriorate, and that it expects catastrophic hunger levels to double in the coming months. It cited a slowdown in aid in recent weeks, the onset of what is typically a cold and rainy winter, and the harsh conditions people face in crowded tent camps with little in the way of food, clean water or toilets.
At a public kitchen in central Gaza on Thursday, crowds of women and children lined up with empty pots to receive a thin tomato soup with peas and noodles.
“It’s been two weeks since we had enough food for ourselves and our children. A lot of food items disappeared from the markets because the crossings are closed and the lack of humanitarian aid entering Gaza. People now come to makeshift kitchens in hopes to find something to eat,” said Mohamed Abed, a displaced man from Gaza City.
Israel has controlled Gaza’s entire land border since May. The Israeli military body in charge of civilian affairs, known as COGAT, says it places no limits on humanitarian aid entering the territory and accuses U.N. agencies and aid groups of failing to promptly deliver it.
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