(12 May 2025)
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Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip – 11 May 2025
1. Various of displaced people carrying empty pots gathering outside a charity to collect food
2. Various of charity workers filling displaced people’s pots with cooked food
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Riham Sheikh el-Eid, displaced from Rafah:
"It is so hard. There is no (open) border crossing. There is no flour. There is no food, no drink. There is nothing, When we come here to the soup kitchen we end up waiting in line for four, five hours in the sun. It’s exhausting and we end up inhaling smoke (from the cooking gas) that just blinds us. In the end, we walk away with nothing. There is not enough for everybody. Only half the people get food. We scramble to get here and in the end we get nothing. If we’re lucky, we get one pot, enough for the little ones. We give them lunch and that is all. It’s like that every day."
4. Various of charity workers filling displaced people’s pots with cooked peas.
5. Various of displaced people holding out pots to be filled
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hani Abu al-Qassim, charity worker:
"After the border closure, now almost 70 days ago, nothing has entered. Not even a drop of water because of the occupation’s policy of starving the people here. Hunger has become the norm. It has become the usual. Everyone is feeling it."
7. Various of empty pots
8. Various of people walking in Khan Younis market
9. Various of canned legumes on a market stall
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Munir Faqawi, resident of Khan Younis:
"People! We are starved! We are starved! Children are dying. Children need nutrition. There is none of that. This is so unjust of you, the whole world. Have some mercy on us."
11. Various of empty stalls.
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khitam al-Dijani, resident of Khan Younis:
"I have 36 grandchildren, that’s besides my children and their partners. They can’t even find a piece of bread. All that because of the border closure. Why are they doing this? Why are they blocking flour? Why are they preventing the aid coming to us, from reaching here? What do they want from us? Get to the bottom of it. They killed children with rockets. And now they are killing us with hunger. Where are the Arabs to defend us?"
13. Various of vendor displaying parsley on his stall
14. Various of canned tuna displaying on a market stall
15. People walking in the market
STORYLINE:
Waving their pots and plates in the air, hundreds of children, women and men crowded round a community kitchen stall in southern Gaza on Sunday, pleading for a ladle of watery bean soup.
It has become a daily scene of desperation in Gaza.
Charity kitchens are the main source of food for the strip’s 2.3 million people but dozens have shut down as Israel’s 10-week blockade of the territory has stopped aid groups from distributing food parcels and emptied the markets of supplies.
"There is no flour. There is no food, no drink. There is nothing," said Riham Sheikh el-Eid, who was displaced from Rafah.
"When we come here to the soup kitchen we end up waiting in line for four, five hours in the sun. It’s exhausting and we end up inhaling smoke that just blinds us. In the end, we walk away with nothing," she said.
If they’re lucky, she added, they come away with one pot to be shared among the children.
The ongoing hunger is threatening Gaza’s population, already battered by 19 months of war.
Malnutrition and hunger are becoming increasingly prevalent in the Gaza Strip and aid agencies say even supplies to treat and prevent malnutrition are running out.
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