(21 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 21 May 2025
1. Displaced Palestinians waiting in line for food
2. Pots being filled with lentils
3. Displaced Palestinian Somaia Abu Amsha carrying her pots and heading back to her tent
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Somaia Abu Amsha, displaced woman:
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"We don’t want anything except for them to stop the war and stop the gunfire. We don’t want anything, we don’t want a charity kitchen. I swear, even dogs wouldn’t eat this, let alone children and young ones. I don’t have wood, or bread. What would the children eat? Is this what we serve them? Any country or people in the world wouldn’t eat this. We wait from afternoon to the next afternoon to eat lentils."
5. Abu Amsha carrying pot and standing by tent speaking with her family
6. Close of pot filled with lentils
7. Various of Abu Amsha pouring lentils into cups and plates and serving it to her family
8. Various of displaced people waiting for food
STORYLINE:
People at a displacement camp in Gaza City waited to get their share of food for the day, which some say is insufficient to feed their children.
Several men from a charity group carried a large pot of lentil soup through the camp as one of displaced man said, “they got us water," criticizing the lentils for being too watered down.
Israel began allowing dozens of humanitarian trucks into Gaza on Tuesday, but the aid has not yet reached Palestinians in desperate need.
Lentil soup is usually rich and thick, but the batch served on Wednesday at the camp was noticeably thin and watery.
Somaia Abu Amsha filled up her pot and later scooped small portions into mugs and bowls for her family.
She said she doesn’t have wood or bread and a kilogram of flour costs around $30, which she can’t afford.
Abu Amsha said her family hadn’t had bread for over 10 days, adding that she cannot buy rice or pasta.
"We don’t want anything except for them to stop the war and stop the gunfire. We don’t want anything, we don’t want a charity kitchen. I swear, even dogs wouldn’t eat this, let alone children," she said, pointing at the pot of lentil soup she held.
Experts have warned that many of Gaza’s 2 million residents face a high risk of famine.
Several women used a small makeshift oven to bake pita bread out of ground lentils, hummus, rice or pasta.
"Every four days, every 10 people wait for two pita breads each – over four days. That is our share to have for breakfast or dinner," said Wahij Salem, who baked pita bread at the camp.
Production: Wafaa Shurafa
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