(27 May 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 26 May 2025
1. Various of Islam Abu Taeima and her nine-year-old daughter, Waed Abu Taeima, searching through garbage for food
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Islam Abu Taeima, Palestinian woman looking for food among garbage:
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”We’re living the biggest tragedy in Gaza and no one can feel what we’re going through. Even when they bring aid, nothing reaches us. As you can see, we’re here as stray dogs collecting food from the trash. I swear this is our life day-to-day. We collect food every day from garbage. If we don’t gather anything, then we don’t eat. Even the bread we gather from the trash has gone soggy due to garbage fluids. What else do you want us to tell you. This is the hard truth we’re living.”
3. Close of food
4. Waed searching through garbage bags for food
5. Various of Islam and her daughter checking garbage bags for food scraps
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Islam Abu Taeima, Palestinian woman looking for food among garbage:
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”I feel sorry for myself because I’m educated and despite that I’m eating from the trash because if I don’t, then I don’t get to eat. This is the truth, we’re seven people [in my family] and my husband is sick and has been injured during the war. He can’t go anywhere and he’s unemployed. We can’t even get anything from a charity kitchen as millions go there. So every day, I bring food to my children from the trash. I boil it and eat it.”
7. Various of Islam and her daughter checking garbage bags for food
8. Islam holding a piece of bread, removes the dirt
9. Islam checking the leftover food in the garbage bags
10. Islam carrying a bag on her back and walking
STORYLINE:
A woman and her daughter sit amid piles of rubble and destroyed buildings, swamped by flies gathered over a pile of garbage.
They search through trash bags, desperately scavenging for scraps of food to feed her starving family.
“As you can see, we’re here as stray dogs collecting food from the trash,” Islam Abu Taeima, a 40-year-old mother of five, said, adding that she didn’t have any other option but to search for leftovers in the garbage.
“If we don’t eat, we’ll die…even when they bring aid, nothing reaches us.”
The Taeima family is among more than two million Palestinians who are on the brink of famine after 19 months of war between Hamas and Israel.
The high risk of famine has generated international outrage against Israel over its nearly three-month blockade and escalating military offensive in Gaza.
Israel had imposed a total blockade since March 2, cutting off all food, medicine and other supplies to Gaza.
It has claimed that the widely condemned blockade along with a military escalation have been part of a tactic aiming to pressure Hamas to release the hostages it still holds in Gaza.
Under mounting pressure, Israel began allowing a trickle of humanitarian aid into Gaza last week, but the majority of it didn’t reach the population, either because aid trucks were looted or Israel’s crippling restrictions, especially in northern Gaza.
Aid groups have repeatedly warned of famine and say the aid that has come in is nowhere near enough to meet mounting needs.
Abu Taeima’s husband was wounded in the 2021 war between Hamas and Israel, an injury that left him unemployed.
“He can’t go anywhere,” she said of her husband. So she and her nine-year-old daughter Waad wander around Gaza City, looking for leftovers discarded in the trash.
Production by Wafaa Shurafa
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