(30 Jul 2025)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 29 July 2025
1. Charity’s workers distributing bags of bread to people
2. Various of girl shouting for food
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim Asfour, displaced Palestinian from Khan Younis:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON SHOT 1 AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 2 & PARTIALLY BY SHOT 4++
"If it was to come through a formal way through aid organizations like UNRWA or the World Food Programme, it would be much relief getting our food parcel and flour bags that way. But this way is hard and life is real hard with charity kitchens and lack of water and everything else. Aid should enter through border crossings, but with what is happening now, we can’t get anything."
4. Various of charity’s workers distributing bags of bread to people
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rajha al-Bayouk, Palestinian from Khan Younis:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 6 AND PARTIALLY BY SHOT 7++
"Nothing reaches us from the aid that comes through land, air, and sea. Gangs and thieves take all of it and sell it at high prices. So what benefit do we get from this? Nothing at all. We only come here to the charity kitchen so we can feed our children. We used to have money, but now it’s all gone. Now, we have nothing. Have mercy on us. Send us to aid distribution sites like that of UNRWA’s that specializes in this so we can get our share of aid. Instead of us having to buy our right in aid. Why would they be that unjust to us?"
6. Various of charity’s workers filling pots of displaced people with cooked lentils
7. Various of girl sitting near pots filled with lentils
STORYLINE:
Scores of Palestinians lined up at a charity kitchen in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis on Tuesday, hoping for a share of whatever meal they could get for the entire day, as humanitarians continue to warn of looming famine.
“The situation is catastrophic. We don’t get anything through land or air or sea as you can see, if we were not in need, we would have not come to charity kitchens,” said Kholoud Inshasi from Khan Younis.
At the charity kitchen, people squeezed against each other as children screamed and cried out loud that they’re hungry in a desperate attempt to a decent share of watery lentil soup and piece of bread.
Ibrahim Asfour, a man displaced from the east of Khan Younis, said people can’t secure any food or water and would be relieved if a competent aid distribution system was restored.
“Aid should enter through border crossings, but with what is happening now, we can’t get anything,” he added.
The U.N. World Food Program says only about half of the aid it has requested to enter Gaza is reaching the territory after Israel eased restrictions on entry over the weekend.
WFP wants 100 trucks per day entering the territory of over 2 million people as deaths from starvation increase.
The U.N. and Palestinians on the ground say little has changed, and desperate crowds continue to overwhelm delivery trucks before they reach their destinations.
Rajha Al-Bayouk, another displaced person from east Khan Younis, said most aid gets stolen and sold in markets at high prices and therefore nothing reaches her family whether by air, sea, or land.
“We only come here to the charity kitchen so we can feed our children. We used to have money, but now it’s all gone. Now, we have nothing,” she said.
The leading international authority on food crises said Tuesday that the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza." It predicted “widespread death” without immediate action.
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