(14 Apr 2025)
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Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip – 13 April 2025
1. Various of people holding pots and waiting to receive food
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saqer Al-Jammal, charity worker: ++SOUNDBITE START FROM SHOT1 AND IS PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT3++
"Today, we’re cooking in at least 15 pots, which doesn’t meet the needs of these citizens. Many citizens are leaving this place without receiving food, due to the increase of (displaced) population here."
3. Various of children shouting for cooked food
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Manal Abu Helal, displaced from Rafah: ++SOUNDBITE START FROM PREVIOUS SHOT++
"We rely entirely on charities. They provide rice and food. There is no aid due to the closure of the crossings. Everything is unavailable."
Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip – 12 April 2025
6. Various of UNRWA workers cleaning warehouse
Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip – 12 April 2025
7. Various of closed bakery
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rana Faraj, displaced Palestinian: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS PARTIALLY OVERALID BY SHOT9++
"Every day, the suffering is the same. Every day, we want to bake bread and knead dough. It’s enough that there is no food at all. You go to the market to buy, but you don’t find anything to buy. Everything is expensive, and you don’t have enough money to provide for your needs. It’s very difficult."
9. Various of closed bakery
STORYLINE:
Pushing each other, children and adults try to gain a place at the front of the line in a soup kitchen in Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip.
Waving their pots to be seen first by the charity workers preparing and distributing the food, dozens of Palestinians gather with the hope to get at least one meal for their families. Not everybody is lucky, the food – mainly rice – is not enough to feed hundreds that daily receive aid and food from the organization.
The situation has exacerbated since March 2, when Israel imposed a blockade on food, fuel and humanitarian aid entering the enclave that has left civilians facing acute shortages.
"Today, we’re cooking in at least 15 pots, which doesn’t meet the needs of these citizens," said Saqer Al-Jammal, a worker in the soup kitchen. "Many citizens are leaving this place without receiving food, due to the increase of (displaced) population here.”
Food is not even available in the market. There are no vegetables, flour, and bread and people have no income to pay the high prices demanded for too little. Bakeries supported by the World Food Program have closed and some UN warehouses where flour was distributed, are now completely empty.
"The situation is very difficult, due to the closure of the crossings," said Mohammad Hasanein, who is displaced from Rafah and now living in Khan Younis. "People’s conditions are deplorable."
Israel has ramped up its offensive in Gaza, trying to pressure Hamas to agree to free the remaining hostages, 59 of whom are still being held, more than half of which are dead.
In addition to ban the entry of aid and supplies to the Strip, Israel ended the ceasefire with Hamas in a surprise attack across Gaza on March 18 that killed more than 400 Palestinians in 24 hours.
The Israeli army has also expanded its presence in Gaza, forcing people to evacuate the area of Rafah as well as several areas in the North of the territory.
"Every day, the suffering is the same” said Rana Faraj outside one of the closed bakeries in Deir al Balah. "We want to bake bread and knead dough."
"It’s enough that there is no food at all," she added. "It’s very difficult.”
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