(1 Apr 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir Al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip – 1 April 2025
1. Various exteriors of closed bakery
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Al-Kurd, from Deir al-Balah, father of 12 children:
"We have reached a point below zero. Things are very, very difficult, more difficult than you can imagine. Our children went to bed without dinner tonight. We told them to be patient and that we would bring flour in the morning. We lie to them and to ourselves. We appeal to all countries of the world to stand with us and open the crossings. We do not want anyone to bring weapons and defend us, or to bring a tank and enter Israel. Just defend us by talking to them, making an agreement with them and opening the crossings. We want to live, we just want to live."
3. Various of empty flour bag on the ground
4. Various of idle bakery machines
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sulaiman Hasanat, from Deir al Balah:
"Everyone is affected, the bakeries are closed, there is nothing, there is nothing, you wake up in the morning and stay up till night running after a piece of bread and you don’t get it."
6. Various of closed bakery
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sahar Al-Aqraa, mother of 10 children:
"There is no gas and now there is no flour, so everything is closed. We’ve been waiting to fetch bread since 7:30 am but there are no bakeries. We don’t know what to do. Our children will die of hunger if the situation remains like that."
8. Various of people walking out of close bakery
STORYLINE:
Palestinians in Gaza are once again facing severe food shortages as all bakeries supported by the World Food Programme shut down on Tuesday.
The closures come amid a month-long Israeli aid blockade that has prevented essential items and food supplies, including flour, from reaching the region.
Footage showed WFP’s Al-Banna and Zadna bakeries in Deir al-Balah closed due to the lack of supplies entering Gaza.
Both bakeries used to have long lines of people waiting to buy bread parcels, a vital staple they depended on alongside meals from charity kitchens throughout the war.
Mohamed al-Kurd, father of five boys and seven girls, said that his children are going to bed without dinner.
“We told them to be patient and that we would bring flour in the morning. We lie to them and to ourselves,” said al-Kurd, who lives with 43 family members in one house.
The WFP said it doesn’t have enough wheat flour needed to make bread.
Meanwhile, Sulaiman Hasanat, father of seven children, said he and his family could spend an entire day trying to find a piece of bread without any success.
Sahar Al-Aqraa, a mother of 10, said they had been waiting to find bread since early in the morning but no bakeries were open.
"We don’t know what to do," she lamented.
"Our children would die of hunger if the situation remains like that.”
AP Video shot by Abdel Kareem Hana
Production by Wafaa Shurafa
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