(2 Apr 2025)
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Jabaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip – 1 April 2025
1. Various of people gathering outside distribution center of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed Ghabn, from Jabaliya: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 3++
"We’re unemployed and have no work, nothing. We’re just sitting around and the bakeries have stopped working. A bundle of pita bread costs 30 shekels ($8). Meanwhile, we are unemployed and don’t have work. We’re just sitting around, and we don’t have shelter or anything. For how long will this affair, this war (continue)? In simple terms, I can’t feed my children. I swear to God, for a kilogram of tomatoes yesterday, they (the vendor) asked me to pay 15 shekels ($4). I do not have 15 shekels to buy it."
3. Various of people receiving boxes of aid and leaving
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nageya Gaballah, displaced woman:++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 5++
"If we don’t have aid, then how can I secure food? There is no money, no food or drink."
5. Various of Gaballah’s son unboxing aid box inside their tent
6. Foodstuffs
STORYLINE:
Dozens of Palestinians lined up in Jabaliya in northern Gaza outside a U.N. distribution centre to receive a food parcel from rapidly dwindling supplies as Israel’s aid blockade persists.
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA distributed flour bags and food parcels that each contain cooking oil, canned tuna, beans, hummus, salt, sugar and yeast.
Nageya Gaballah, a displaced woman living in a tent with 10 family members, said she wouldn’t be able to secure essentials if it weren’t for the aid and vouchers distributed by UNRWA.
She lost her job as cleaning staffer at the Indonesian Hospital last month and her husband is unemployed.
Israel ended its ceasefire with the Hamas militant group and renewed its air and ground war last month.
Israel, which tightened its blockade and later resumed its offensive in order to pressure Hamas into accepting changes to their ceasefire agreement, said that enough food entered Gaza during the six-week truce to sustain the territory’s roughly 2 million Palestinians.
The U.N. food agency is closing all of its bakeries in the Gaza Strip, officials said Tuesday, as food supplies dwindle after Israel sealed the territory off from all imports nearly a month ago.
Mohamed Ghabn from Jabaliya said securing food has become extremely difficult for him.
Ghabn, who is also unemployed said a bundle of pita costs 30 shekels ($8) and a kilogram of tomatoes is priced at 15 shekels ($4).
"I do not have 15 shekels to buy it," he said, adding "in simple terms, I can’t feed my children."
Markets largely emptied weeks ago, and U.N. agencies say the supplies they built up during the truce are running out.
Gaza is heavily reliant on international aid because the war has destroyed almost all of its food production capability.
Production: Wafaa Shurafa
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