(21 May 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 21 May 2025
1. Charity workers carrying pot of lentils and walking near displaced people who are carrying their pots and waiting for food
2. Various of displaced people carrying their empty pots and waiting for food
3. Various of filled pots
4. Various of displaced people carrying their pots and waiting, others carrying pots and heading on their way to point of food distribution
5. Various of charity workers filling pots of displaced people with lentils
6. Various of displaced people waiting to get food
7. Somaia Abu Amsha, displaced woman carrying her pots that are filled with lentils and heading back to her tent
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Somaia Abu Amsha, displaced woman:
"We don’t want anything except for them to stop the war and stop the gunfire. We don’t want anything, we don’t want a charity kitchen. I swear, even dogs wouldn’t eat this, let alone children and young ones. I don’t have wood, or bread. What would the children eat? Is this what we serve them? Any country or people in the world wouldn’t eat this. We wait from afternoon to the next afternoon to eat lentils."
9. Abu Amsha carrying pot and standing by tent speaking with her family
10. Close of pot filled with lentils
11. Various of Abu Amsha pouring lentils into cups and plates and serving it to her family
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Somaia Abu Amsha, displaced woman:
"I can’t afford to buy rice or pasta for them. One kilogram of flour costs 100 shekels, I can’t afford it. For more than 10 days, I have not brought a single piece of bread home."
13. Various of woman baking bread for displaced people
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wahij Salem, displaced woman:
"We’ve been struggling to obtain flour for nearly three months when it comes to everything, baking, cooking, and charity kitchens, in everything. We have been grinding rice, lentils, hummus and pasta. Every four days, every 10 people wait for two pita breads each – over four days. That is our share to have for breakfast or dinner just so we keep our lives going."
15. Various of displaced people waiting to get their bread
STORYLINE:
People at a displacement camp in Gaza City waited to get their share of food for the day, which some say is insufficient to feed their children.
Several men from a charity group carried a large pot of lentil soup through the camp as one of displaced man said, “they got us water," critcising the lentils for being too watered down.
Israel began allowing dozens of humanitarian trucks into Gaza on Tuesday, but the aid has not yet reached Palestinians in desperate need.
Lentil soup is usually rich and thick, but the batch served on Wednesday at the camp was noticeably thin and watery.
Somaia Abu Amsha filled up her pot and later scooped small portions into mugs and bowls for her family.
She said she doesn’t have wood or bread and a kilogram of flour costs around $30, which she can’t afford.
Abu Amsha said her family hadn’t had bread for over 10 days, adding that she cannot buy rice or pasta.
"We don’t want anything except for them to stop the war and stop the gunfire. We don’t want anything, we don’t want a charity kitchen. I swear, even dogs wouldn’t eat this, let alone children," she said, pointing at the pot of lentil soup she held.
Experts have warned that many of Gaza’s 2 million residents face a high risk of famine.
Several women used a small makeshift oven to bake pita bread out of ground lentils, hummus, rice or pasta.
Production: Wafaa Shurafa
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