(22 May 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++CLIENTS NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS FOOTAGE OF MALNOURISHED CHILDREN++
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 22 May 2025
1. Various of two-year-old Mayar al-Arja crying and hugging herself on bed in Nasser Hospital malnutrition department
2. Various of Mayar’s thin body and legs
3. Various of Mayar’s mother Asma al-Arja dressing her as she cries
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Asma al-Arja, mother of Mayar al-Arja:
"She is two years old. She weighs seven kilograms (15 pounds). She suffers from severe malnutrition. She has celiac disease and chronic diarrhea. She has been suffering from it for a year now. She needs diapers, soy milk and she needs special food. This is not available because of border closures. If it’s available, it is expensive, I can’t afford it."
5. Various of Mayar sleeping on hospital bed
6. Various of five-month-old Yousef Al-Najjar sleeping in malnutrition department
7. Various of Yousef’s thin legs
8. Yousef’s mother Najia al-Najjar showing his thin back
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Najia al-Najjar, mother of Yousef al-Najjar:
"Since I gave birth, I keep spending time in the hospital. I leave for a few days, only to return again. He is malnourished, has infections everywhere and a blood infection. There is no baby formula. There is no milk at all."
10. Various of Yousef sleeping on hospital bed
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Ahmed al-Farrah, Nasser Hospital head of pediatrics and obstetrics department:
"Most stocks for nutrition and baby formula are almost running out. Many are already depleted. The situation is very catastrophic in terms of nutrition of pregnant women and children."
12. Various of mothers and their children in malnutrition department
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Ahmed al-Farrah, Nasser Hospital head of pediatrics and obstetrics department:
"We are now facing a disaster. This disaster will be dire if there is a continuation in the blocking of food supplies. I predict there will be many victims because of food insecurity. Most people now live off food scraps of what they had in stock."
14. Various of girl eating nutritional supplement in tent with her family
15. Various of family eating soup and girl eating nutritional supplement inside their tent
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nouf al-Arja, displaced Palestinian from Rafah:
"They told me she (daughter) also has malnutrition. They told me to help her with food, but I don’t have any. If I had any in the tent, we would have done all we could, at least pasta and lentils. But it is all expensive, my husband can’t afford to, he is not working. There is no work, there is no life."
17. Various of nutritional supplement jar next to empty plate
18. Various of family siting on ground next to empty cans
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salha Barhoum, displaced Palestinian from Rafah:
"The situation is very difficult. It is very hard, there is no food. We depend on the community kitchen, one day there is and another there is none – rice, pasta. Our life is difficult."
20. Various of empty food can on ground near tents
21. Various of tents in displacement camp, smoke rising in background
STORYLINE:
Grabbing her daughter Mayar’s feeble arm, Asmaa al-Arja pulls a shirt over her two-year-old’s protruding ribs and swollen belly.
The child lies on a hospital bed, heaving, then wails uncontrollably, throwing her arms around her own shoulders as if to console herself.
This isn’t the first time Mayar has been in a Gaza hospital battling malnutrition, yet this 17-day stint is the longest.
Supplies are running out, people are living off scraps, he said.
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