(19 Jun 2025)
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Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip – 19 June 2025
1. Various of displaced people gathering at charity kitchen to receive a hot meal, food being prepared
2. Various of people with pots crowding to get food
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saad Abdeen, owner of al-Saada charity Kitchen:
“I cook in this place as you can see, to distribute free food to people displaced by war and house demolitions. Al-Saada (Happiness in Arabic) Kitchen is located in this humanitarian zone. We are surrounded by tents that house displaced people, the number is around 20,000.”
4. Various of people, many of them children, with pots crowding to get food
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saad Abdeen, owner of al-Saada charity Kitchen:
“We get food from the markets and whatever is available from the markets, from the stalls, and from the vendors, as there is little food available in the markets, and what comes in through American aid or international aid, we buy it from some of those who get food, so that we can cook the food and feed the people.”
6. Various of people with pots crowding to get food
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saad Abdeen, owner of al-Saada charity Kitchen:
“We can’t feed everyone who comes to us. About 15,000 people come to us every day, but not everyone gets food. Some get barely one meal, and some don’t get any at all.”
8. Various of food being prepared
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdel-Nasser Sheikh El-Eid, displaced Palestinian from Rafah:
“Life is very difficult. A person only eats one meal a day because of the suffocating siege and there is no way to buy some necessities because they are expensive and unavailable. The aid that comes through the American and Israeli committees – getting it is very dangerous. A person might not return to his children and might return dead.”
10. Empty pots
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Hanadi Abu-Jami, displaced Palestinian mother:
“Enough, enough siege, enough death. Our children are dying and getting lost in this situation. Yesterday, my sister’s husband was martyred when he went to get a morsel of food for his children. He went there and died. His little daughter said to him, ‘Dad, I want a biscuit, I want a biscuit.’ He went to get her a biscuit and was martyred. He was martyred and left his children. He went to get biscuits, but he was martyred. We don’t want to get aid this way. We want to get it by messages (meaning through the UNRWA agency).”
12. People with empty pots
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Fathieh Ghanem, displaced elderly woman from Rafah:
“I came to get a plate of food, so that my old husband and I can eat, a plate of food from the al- Saada kitchen. Without al-Saada kitchen, we would not eat or drink. This is the only kitchen that we depend on. We are hungry. We have no flour or oil.”
14. Wide of displaced people
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Foad Abu-Harb, displaced elderly man from Rafah:
“The food situation is extremely dire. You see first that Allah has blessed us with a takiyeh (referring to Al-Saada Kitchen), the Takiyeh where we come and receive food. Some days we receive food and other days we don’t. The situation is tragic, extremely tragic.”
16. Wide of displaced people
STORYLINE:
Thousands of desperate displaced people received hot soup meals from a charity that provides basic food daily in Deir al-Balah, in the Gaza strip.
Palestinians across the Gaza Strip have become increasingly desperate as nearly three months of Israeli border closures have pushed the territory to the brink of famine.
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