(10 Apr 2025)
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Jabaliya Refugee Camp, northern Gaza Strip – 9 April 2025
1. Various of people gathering to receive aid outside a distribution center for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA)
2. Various of people receiving empty water containers
3. Various of containers
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hanaa al-Silawi, from Jabaliya refugee camp:
"I got a message from UNRWA today saying I should come to collect two water containers. So I came and collected them. UNRWA is the official international organization helping Palestinians. However, its supplies have significantly decreased in this period, while we’re going through a tough period of blockade and destruction. This aid is badly needed by the people here."
5. Various of women holding their IDs and gathering to receive aid
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hassan Moqbel, from Jabaliya refugee camp:
"The situation is very bad. To get an aid coupon, you need to walk around 4 kilometers round trip– and for women and elderly men it’s hard to do so. Transportation is expensive and people don’t have money. There is no income, no entity is giving money. Everything is closed. The situation is very bad. You have to get us out of here. We’re humans, we’re not sheep living here. We’re humans like everyone else in the world. They have to look at the poor people and help them eat and drink. We don’t want palaces from them, we’re only asking for food to eat."
7. Various of woman receiving empty water containers and leaving
8. People receiving canned cooked food
9. Various of canned cooked food
10. Various of people gathering to receive aid
STORYLINE:
Around two dozen Palestinians gathered outside a warehouse of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Jabaliya, in the northern Gaza Strip, hoping to receive their share of desperately needed supplies, as aid continues to dwindle more than a month into Israel’s ongoing blockade.
On Wednesday, UNRWA distributed empty plastic containers for water, canned goods, and small single-serve meals of chicken and rice.
Hanaa al-Silawi, who was among those waiting to receive aid, said the UN agency sent her a message asking her to go to the warehouse to collect her share.
She received two empty water containers, but told The Associated Press that supplies are in rapid decline amid the ongoing blockade and destruction, and what they were getting was not enough to meet people’s needs.
AP footage showed a crowd of people cramming each other as they pressed toward the front of the warehouse, arms raised with aid vouchers held high.
"We’re humans, we’re not sheep living here. We’re humans like everyone else in the world. They have to look at the poor people and help them eat and drink," said Hassan Moqbel, who also come to the UNRWA distribution center.
He said even securing a food coupon was challenging for many as transportation is expensive and people have to walk long distances to get them.
The United Nations says Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis amid severe shortages of food, water and harsh living conditions since Israel stepped up its military offensive in the territory last month and cut off all food, medicine, fuel, electricity and other supplies to the territory’s 2 million people.
Israel cut off aid more than a month ago – a tactic that rights groups say is a war crime — while issuing displacement orders that have forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flee Israeli bombardments and ground operations.
Markets largely emptied weeks ago.
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