(25 Mar 2025)
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Jabaliya Refugee Camp, northern Gaza Strip – 25 March 2025
1. Various of people gathering outside UNRWA distribution center near destruction waiting to receive aid
2. People sitting near bags of flour and boxes of aid near UNRWA distribution center
3. Various of boy carrying bag of flour and placing it on cart
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shorouq Shamlakh, resident from Jabaliya:
"We suffer from a severe shortage of food, water and everything else. There is no life in Gaza. We receive one box of aid per month, which is barely enough for me and my children. My three children are orphans. I’ve taken them all over Gaza, but no organization has given me a single shekel."
5. Various of people waiting to receive aid
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shorouq Shamlakh, resident from Jabaliya:
"Life will become tragic. If it weren’t for UNRWA, we wouldn’t be able to eat. We depend entirely on this aid box. Sometimes we reduce our food — and our children’s food — so it will last the rest of the month. If this (UNRWA center) closes, who else will provide us with food or coupons? No one."
7. Various of people receiving boxes of aid and leaving
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ramez Okasha, resident from Jabaliya:
"A third of my salary goes to commission traders. What’s left of my salary? I receive 3,000 (shekels) and have 2,000 left. How is 2,000 enough amid the high prices in the Gaza Strip? A kilo of tomatoes costs 20 shekels, onions 50, eggplant — which no one used to buy— costs 25 shekels per kilo. The 100 shekels you spend today are equivalent to 5 shekels before October 7."
9. Various of people receiving boxes of aid
10. Various of people carrying aid and leaving
11. People gathering to receive aid
STORYLINE:
Palestinians in northern Gaza lined up at a U.N. distribution center to receive aid boxes, a day after the world body said it will “reduce its footprint” in the besieged territory after an Israeli tank strike hit one of its compounds last week, killing one staffer.
The U.N. will temporarily remove about a third of its approximately 100 international staffers working in Gaza, Secretary-General spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said.
He pointed to the increased danger after Israel relaunched its military campaign last week with bombardment that has since killed hundreds of Palestinians.
Israel has also cut off all food, medicine, aid and other supplies to Gaza’s population for the past three weeks.
Dujarric’s statement was the U.N’s first to point the finger at Israel in the March 19 explosion at the U.N. guesthouse in central Gaza.
He said that “based on the information currently available,” the strikes on the site —which also wounded five other employees— “were caused by an Israeli tank.”
The Israeli military repeated its denial that it was responsible for the strike, which took place a day after Israel shattered Gaza’s 2-month-old ceasefire with a surprise bombardment across the Gaza Strip.
At the distribution center run by UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, in Jabaliya Refugee Camp, dozens lined up to receive monthly aid boxes they say are not enough to meet their needs.
Shorouq Shamlakh, a mother of three orphans, said if that center closes, "life will become tragic."
"If it weren’t for UNRWA, we wouldn’t be able to eat. We depend entirely on this aid box. Sometimes we reduce our food — and our children’s food — so it will last the rest of the month," she added.
Production: Wafaa Shurafa
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