(12 May 2025)
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 11 May 2025
1. Various of worker grinding lentils for use in making bread
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abed Abdel-Razik, mill worker:
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"Each child has been begging his family to eat, so the family turned to things they were not used to before. We did not grind these things before. Not beans or lentils nor anything else. Today, in light of the starvation crisis, and the lack of (even) lentils and beans, people have begun to accept very strange things."
3. Close of lentil grinding
4. Nevine Gassem, displaced mother of eight, waiting for her lentils
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nevine Gassem, displaced mother of eight:
"The pasta has run out. Now we have started to grind the lentils, to see how they will be. We don’t know how things will be. What is left of this? There is nothing to grind, there is nothing to eat. The children wish for a tomato, a cucumber and an onion."
6. Mid of Gassem returning to her tent
7. Various of Gassem preparing bread using lentil flour, her children sitting next to her
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nevine Gassem, displaced mother of eight:
"Frankly, I am afraid for the children. I am afraid that the child’s body will waste away and he will become malnourished. And I will not be able to do anything for him. This is what we fear. What is available today will not be available in a few days."
9. Gassem carrying tray containing loaves of lentil bread
10. Various of Gassem baking lentil bread
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nevine Gassem, displaced mother of eight:
"Once a day they eat, once. When I prepare the bread they eat it. Then, they stay patient, the adults drink the water and we leave what is left for the children."
12. Various of Gassem’s children eating lentil bread
STORYLINE:
Amid Israel’s ongoing blockade, war-weary Palestinians in Gaza have increasingly suffered to feed their children as famine looms in the coastal territory.
No aid entered Gaza for more than two months.
Markets have almost run out of food.
In April, the World Food Program (WFP) said its food stocks in Gaza had run out under Israel’s blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the Strip.
As flour became scarce, or unaffordable for the majority of Palestinians in Gaza, many have resorted to grinding pasta, beans or lentils to produce dough and bake bread — the main food staple in the Palestinian meal.
For the last two weeks, Nevine Gassem has fed her children a bread made of a mix of pasta with small amounts of flour.
The mother, who has been sheltering in the Muwasi makeshift camp, west of Khan Younis, said she resorted to grinding pasta because flour was either not available or unaffordable.
“There is nothing to grind,” she said in an interview with the Associated Press, as she made the lentils bread.
“There is nothing to eat," she added.
Gassem, who fled her hometown of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza a year ago, added that she now depends on pasta, beans, bulgur or lentils to feed her family.
"The children wish for a tomato, a cucumber and an onion."
Community soup kitchens, another main source of food for Gaza’s population, have also run out of food stock and many of them have stopped cooking hot meals.
Abed Abdel-Razik, a worker at a charity kitchen in Muwasi, said the ban of humanitarian aid forced people to cook whatever raw items they can find.
"We had never grinded these things before, neither beans or lentils nor anything else," he stressed.
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