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Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip – 19 November 2024
1. Various of Eid family sitting out of their tent and eating cooked lentils
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasmin Eid, displaced woman from Jabaliya:
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"For months, we’ve been sleeping without food, without breakfast. Maybe just one meal that I manage to prepare for me and my family, only one. Prices have skyrocketed, and we cannot afford anything. Certainly, my family and I go to bed without dinner."
3. Various of Eid family sitting out of their tent and eating cooked lentils
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hani Eid, displaced man from Jabaliya:
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"The bakeries are completely closed these days. Because of the flour crisis and the closures, the price of a bag of flour has soared to 8 million (shekels), approximately $220. This means I need $220 every three days just to buy one bag of flour."
5. Various of hundreds of tents that displaced people use as shelter
6. Various of Eid children playing out of their family tent
STORYLINE:
Yasmin Eid coughs and covers her face, cooking a small pot of lentils over a fire fed with twigs and scrap paper in the tent she shares with her husband and four daughters in the Gaza Strip.
It was their only meal on Wednesday — it was all they could afford.
After being displaced five times, the Eids – originally from Jabaliya – reside in central Gaza, where aid groups have relatively more access than in the north, which has been largely isolated and heavily destroyed since Israel began waging an offensive against the militant group Hamas.
But nearly everyone in Gaza is going hungry these days.
In the north experts say a full-blown famine may be underway.
On Thursday, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, accusing them of using “starvation as a method of warfare” — charges Israel adamantly denies.
In Deir al-Balah, the Eids are among hundreds of thousands sheltering in squalid tent camps.
The local bakeries shut down for five days this week.
The price of a bag of bread climbed above $13 by Wednesday, as bread and flour vanished from shelves before more supplies arrived.
The United Nations humanitarian office warned of a “stark increase” in the number of households experiencing severe hunger in central and southern Gaza.
It appeared to be linked to the robbery at gunpoint of nearly 100 aid trucks last weekend in southern Gaza, close to Israeli military positions.
Israel blamed Hamas but appears to have taken no action to stop the looting, while Hamas said it was the work of local bandits.
For the Eids, hunger is the daily routine
For months, Yasmin and her family have gone to bed hungry.
"Prices have skyrocketed, and we cannot afford anything," she said.
"Certainly, my family and I go to bed without dinner."
She misses coffee, but a single packet of Nescafe goes for around $1.30.
A kilogram (2 pounds) of onions goes for $10, a medium bottle of cooking oil for $15 — if available.
Meat and chicken all but vanished from the markets months ago, but there are still some local vegetables.
Israel says it places no limits on the amount of aid entering Gaza and blames U.N. agencies for not retrieving it, pointing to hundreds of truckloads languishing on the Gaza side of the border.
At the current rate of entry, around 2,400 trucks would come into Gaza in November.
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