(12 May 2025)
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Khan Younis – 11 May 2025
1. Various of worker grinding lentils for use in making bread
2. Worker filling lentil flour in a bag
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abed Abdel-Razik, worker in mill:
"Each child has been begging his family to eat, so the family turned to things they were not used to before. We did not grind these things before. Not beans or lentils nor anything else. Today, in light of the starvation crisis, and the lack of (even) lentils and beans, people have begun to accept very strange things."
4. Various of worker emptying bag of pasta into a mill to grind it and use it in making bread
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nevine Gassem, displaced woman and mother of eight children:
"We have been soaking pasta overnight, then draining it and making flour from it. Now the pasta is run out. This was two weeks ago. The pasta has run out. Now we have come to grind the lentils, to see how the lentils will be. We do not know how things will be. What is left of this? There is nothing to grind, there is nothing to eat. The children wish for a tomato, a cucumber and an onion."
6. Various of worker emptying lentils into a mill to grind them
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nevine Gassem, displaced woman and mother of eight children:
"I expect that slowly they will grind corn like that used to feed animals. We live below humans. The suffering is difficult. I feel a great responsibility, I don’t know how to feed my children, how to care for them."
8. Various of Nevine Gassem receiving bag of ground lentils.
9. Various of Gassem carrying bag of ground lentils and returning to her tent
10. Various of Gassem preparing bread using lentil flour, her children sitting next to her
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nevine Gassem , displaced woman and mother of 8 children:
"Now I only have a bit of lentils left. Frankly, I am afraid for the children. I am afraid that the child’s body will waste away and he will become malnourished, and I will not be able to do anything for him. This is what we fear. What is available today will not be available in a few days."
12. Gassem carrying tray containing loaves of lentil bread
13. Various of Gassem baking lentil bread
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nevine Gassem, displaced woman and mother of eight children:
"Once a day they eat, once, when I prepare the bread they eat it, then they stay patient, the adults drink the water and we leave what is left for the children, because the child does not understand that he must fast from food, as adults, we drink the water, and we stay until the next day until we wake up and prepare a second meal like this, and so on."
15. Various of Gassem preparing sandwiches for her children using lentil bread
16. Various of Gassem’s children eating lentil bread
STORYLINE:
Amid Israel’s ongoing blockade, war-weary Palestinians in Gaza have increasingly suffered to feed their children as famine looms in the coastal territory.
No aid entered Gaza for more than two months.
Markets have almost run out of food.
In April, the World Food Program (WFP) said its food stocks in Gaza had run out under Israel’s blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the Strip.
As flour became scarce, or unaffordable for the majority of Palestinians in Gaza, many have resorted to grinding pasta, beans or lentils to produce dough and bake bread — the main food staple in the Palestinian meal.
For the last two weeks, Nevine Gassem has fed her children a bread made of a mix of pasta with small amounts of flour.
“There is nothing to eat," she added.
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