(27 Apr 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 24 April 2025
1. Various of tomatoes and small quantities of vegetables displayed for sale at stalls
2. Rotten tomato
3. Boy sorting tomatoes
4. Various of people walking in Khan Younis market
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khalil Abu Ghraieb, citizen from Khan Younis:
"I can’t find anything to buy. Even if I wanted to buy something, I ask for a kilo of cucumbers and he tells me 15 and 20 shekels, tomatoes 30 shekels, an ounce of peppers is 10 shekels, how many thousand shekels do we have to buy? How much are potatoes today? He says a kilo of potatoes is 40 and 45 shekels. I have 8 and 9 people, how many fruits do I need to feed them? What is happening to us?”
6. Man inspecting cucumbers on display
7. Various of rotten eggplant displayed at stalls for sale
8. Various of canned food displayed at stalls
9. Empty stalls in the market
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 25 April 2025
10. Women open cans of peas
11. Woman stirs canned peas and carrots in a pot over the fire
12. Woman pouring water into a pot to cook peas
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sumaya al-Najjar, displaced from Rafah:
"We live on pasta, peas or rice. Pasta, peas or rice and lentils. There is nothing, I swear to God my husband and I are cancer patients and we crave a tomato, a piece of fruit, a cucumber or an apple, there is nothing. I stopped taking the medication and the disease is spreading more, and my husband in European hospital, and I has no food to take him. Where can I get them, where can I get for them the food and drink?”
14. Various of woman cooking peas, children waiting for food
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sumaya al-Najjar, displaced from Rafah:
"I’m afraid they’ll die of hunger. He doesn’t know what kofta is. We forgot meat, we forgot chicken, we forgot everything. And I’m afraid something will happen to my son’s children because of the lack of food and nutrition.”
16. Women carrying pots of food and placing on the ground inside a tent, children sitting on the ground waiting for food
17. Various of women pouring cooked rice and peas
18. Various of children eating peas and rice
19. Various of Najjar family eating inside their tent
20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mariam al-Najjar, displaced from Rafah:
"Today is Friday, we are supposed to cook chicken, meat, maqluba (a Palestinian dish), stuffed vegetables. Today we are cooking peas and rice. We did not know canned peas before the war, we know it during the war. We did not see canned beans, we did not see them in our lives only when this war began, which destroyed us and destroyed our lives.”
21. Various of dried tomato seedlings inside the greenhouses
22. Various of tomato seedlings
23. Mahmoud Al-Shaer, farmer collecting tomatoes
24. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Al-Shaer, farmer:
"This is not the (usual) production, these are not tomatoes for every year at this time. Tomatoes are in tons, the greenhouse harvest produces half a ton or 600 kilos. Now it does not produce 100 kilos or 120 or 150 kilos at most.”
25. Various of rotten tomatoes on the ground
26. Farmer carrying rotten tomatoes
27. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Al-Shaer, farmer:
28. Farmer carrying rotten eggplant
29. Various of eggplant seedlings inside greenhouses
30. Various of rotten peppers on the ground
31. Various of pepper seedlings inside greenhouses
STORYLINE:
For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.
Aid groups are running out of food to distribute.
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