(24 May 2025)
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Muwasi, Gaza Strip – 23 May 2025
1. Various of charity workers filling pots of displaced people with cooked lentils
2. Various of displaced Palestinians holding empty pots and waiting for food
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Mohammad, displaced Palestinian from Rafah:
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"There is no medical treatment or food or anything. We’re suffering greatly. We’re spending all days and nights under warplanes and shelling in the midst of a sea of blood, starvation, tears, and pain. No child can eat nor a mother able to feed her children. Even men are struggling to get a small amount of food for their children. There is no flour and rice is expensive. We have nothing at all. We’re all suffering in different ways."
4. Various of people, including children, holding out their pots towards charity workers
5. Wide of people gathering waiting for food
STORYLINE:
Palestinians crowded a charity kitchen in southern Gaza on Friday, waiting for food with hunger and desperation heightened by Israel’s three-month aid blockade.
Dozens of people held out pots and plastic containers in the hope of receiving a share of the cooked lentils from the workers at the charity in Muwasi near Khan Younis.
After mounting international criticism of its renewed offensive and blockade, Israeli officials said Friday they let in more than 100 trucks of aid, including flour, food, medical equipment and drugs.
But UN agencies say the amount is woefully insufficient, compared with around 600 trucks a day that entered during a recent ceasefire and that are necessary to meet basic needs.
The agencies say Israeli military restrictions and the breakdown of law and order in Gaza make it difficult to retrieve and distribute the aid.
As a result, little of it has so far reached those in need.
Um Muhammad, a Palestinian displaced from Rafah, said they were surviving "in the midst of a sea of blood, starvation, tears, and pain".
The World Food Programme said that hunger and desperation about whether food was coming in is contributing to rising insecurity, and called on Israel to allow greater volumes of food to enter, faster and more efficiently.
Israel says the aid now is to bridge the gap until a U.S. backed initiative starts soon.
A new group known as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says it will take over aid distribution in Gaza, and armed private contractors will guard the distribution.
Israel says the system is needed because Hamas siphons off significant amounts of aid.
The war in Gaza began when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251 others.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive, which has destroyed large swaths of Gaza, has killed more than 53,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count.
AP video shot by Abdel Kareem Hana
Production by Wafaa Shurafa
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