(30 Jul 2025)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 29 July 2025
1. Various of girl holding empty pot among displaced people who are waiting for food distribution to begin
2. Various of displaced people carrying empty pots and waiting for cooked food
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim Asfour, displaced Palestinian from Khan Younis:
"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 people carrying their pots and waiting for cooked food
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kholoud Inshasi, Palestinian from Khan Younis:
"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. Would a person really choose to come over here and suffer? We used to live a life in which we’d bake and cook our own food in our homes."
6. Various of displaced people carrying pots and waiting to get food
7. Various of charity’s workers distributing bags of bread to people
8. Various of girl shouting for food
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rajha al-Bayouk, Palestinian from Khan Younis:
"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?"
10. Various of charity’s workers filling pots of displaced people with cooked lentils
11. 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.
AP production by Wafaa Shurafa
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