(9 Mar 2025)
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Khan Younis – 9 March 2025
1. Bag of flour with United Nations logo on front
2. Various of people moving bags of flour
3. Man carrying bag of flour and leaving
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bushra Abu Akar, Khan Younis resident:
"Last time we received aid, it was just a bag of flour and that bag is not enough. For those who have children, it is not enough to feed them. We need more aid than that. As you know, the situation is very difficult. No one is working. There is no money, there is nothing."
5. Various of men moving bags of flour loaded onto wheelchair
6. Various of people pulling bags of flour loaded onto wagons
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fares al-Qeisi, Khan Younis resident:
"It hasn’t been two months since the situation has started to ease. Since the ceasefire began, the situation has improved a little. But before that, the situation was very bad. It was famine, there was no… I swear to God, one could not satisfy their hunger. One could not find bread and we have children who would cry in the morning, saying they want a piece of bread. The situation was very bad, and the price of a bag of flour had even reached approximately $200 or $300."
8. Various of people carrying bags of flour and loading them onto cart
9. People leaving with cart loaded with flour
10. Various of bags of flour on cart
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hamdi al-Deiri, displaced Palestinian:
"The situation is very bad. I really struggle to find food. If it weren’t for the aid that comes to us from the relief organisations, our situation would have become very, very tough. I can’t describe it to you. One would go to sleep without dinner."
12. Various of boy moving bags of flour loaded onto wagon
13. People leaving with bags of flour loaded onto cart
14. Various of man carrying bag of flour
STORYLINE:
Israel’s decision to cut off food and other supplies to Gaza has left residents in the enclave grappling with food insecurity and uncertainty with prices on essentials tripling.
A weeklong aid freeze has imperilled the progress aid workers say they have made to stave off famine during the six-week Phase 1 of the ceasefire deal Israel and Hamas agreed to in January.
Palestinians are lining up outside aid distribution centres across Gaza to receive humanitarian aid amid deteriorating conditions.
After more than 16 months of war, Gaza’s population is entirely dependent on trucked-in food and other aid.
But many say the aid they are getting is not enough to feed their families.
"Last time we received aid, it was just a bag of flour and that bag is not enough," said Bushra Abu Akar from Khan Younis.
Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive trying to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable.
During the ceasefire’s first phase, humanitarian agencies rushed in supplies, with about 600 trucks entering per day on average.
Aid workers set up more food kitchens, health centres and water distribution points. But the progress relied on the flow of aid continuing.
Fares al-Qeisi, from the southern city of Khan Younis, said conditions had only started to ease over the past two months when the ceasefire took effect.
"But before that, the situation was very bad. It was famine," al-Qeisi said, adding "one could not satisfy their hunger".
The agency also warned that its fuel stocks would only last for a few weeks.
Talks on the second phase should have started a month ago.
Production: Wafaa Shurafa
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