(10 Mar 2025)
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Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip – 10 March 2025
1. Various of vehicles carrying water barrels arriving at desalination plant
2. Exterior of desalination plant, sign reading (English/Arabic) "Southern Gaza Desalination Plant"
3. Various of vehicles in desalination plant
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed al-Rabai, Director of the Southern Gaza Desalination Plant in Deir al-Balah:
“There will definitely be a huge shortage in terms of energy. The current available quantity is 12,000 cubic meters that we take from Makarot (national water company of Israel). This too could stop at any moment. We don’t know. The threats from the Israeli side are there. We are trying to compensate by operating the generators. But with the generators running we cannot produce more than 2,000 cubic meters a day. So there will remain a very large shortage, more than 60% of the quantity that was available.”
5. Various of machinery inside desalination plant
6. Various of man filling barrels with water
7. Various of people gathering near tanks of water, filling containers with water
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud al-Haj Ahmed, displaced from Jabaliya refugee camp:
“We are a people accustomed to crises, especially the closure of crossings and the delay of aid, in addition to water. (It’s) starvation, because we have lived it for 15 months. This water (tank) – every four or five days, or a week – comes once. And we are displaced in the city of Deir al-Balah until this moment.”
9. Various of child standing with containers filled with water
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amal Ahmed, displaced from Nuseirat refugee camp:
“It is a big problem, because we depend on it for drinking, (preparing) food and cooking. A few days ago, there was a delay of two days to the point where the situation was very bad. If the pump station stops, it will be a big problem for us. There will be more suffering in addition to the suffering we are experiencing.”
11. Various of Ahmed carrying pots of water out of her tent
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wazadah Farajallah, displaced woman from Nuseirat refugee camp:
"So they want to kill us completely, and they cut off water, because without water we cannot live.”
13. Woman and children near tents
14. Various of woman washing dishes outside tent
STORYLINE:
Israel announced over the weekend it was cutting off electricity supply to Gaza, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water for part of the arid territory.
Hamas has called it part of Israel’s “starvation policy.”
Sunday’s announcement came a week after Israel suspended supplies of goods to the territory of more than 2 million people.
It’s pressing Hamas to accept an extension of the first phase of their ceasefire. That phase ended last weekend.
Israel had warned when it stopped all supplies that water and electricity could be next.
The letter from Israel’s energy minister to the Israel Electric Corporation tells it to stop selling power to Gaza.
The desalination plant was providing 18,000 cubic meters of water per day for central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah area, according to Gisha, an Israeli organisation dedicated to protecting Palestinians’ right to freedom of movement.
Ahmed al-Rabai, director of the Southern Gaza Desalination Plant, said the plant was expected to run on generators and produce around 2,000 cubic meters of water per day, about 60% of the quantity that was previously available.
It also accused Hamas of siphoning off aid.
Hamas is believed to have 24 living hostages and the bodies of 35 others.
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