(27 May 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 26 May 2025
1. Islam Abu Taeima and her nine-year-old daughter, Waed Abu Taeima, search through garbage for food
2. Islam collects rice from garbage bags and puts it in another bag (the cameraman asking in Arabic): "What are you doing? Tell me?" Islam Abu Taameh: "We’re searching in the trash for food. We’re dying of hunger. We don’t have bread or food. We eat from the trash. If we don’t eat, we’ll die, nobody cares about us, what can I do?”
3. Waed searching through garbage bags for food
4. Various of Islam and her daughter checking garbage bags for food scraps
5. Islam says to her daughter in Arabic: "Look, there’s bread here?"
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Islam Abu Taeima, Palestinian woman looking for food among garbage:
”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.”
7. Various of Islam and her daughter checking garbage bags for food
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Islam Abu Taeima, Palestinian woman looking for food among garbage:
”I feel sorry for myself because I’m educated and despite that I’m eating from the trash because if I don’t do it 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.”
9. Islam holding a piece of bread, removes the dirt, UPSOUND (Arabic) ”I’ll die from hunger. My children are sick and injured. How can I survive?”
10. Islam checking the leftover food in the garbage bags, UPSOUND (Arabic) ”People are struggling, and no one would be generous with you and so I say collecting from the trash is better.”
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Islam Abu Taeima, Palestinian woman looking for food among garbage:
”Yesterday, I gathered food from the trash and heated it up and we ate it. Intestinal health issues are way better than starvation. Starving is way worse. Starvation is the biggest disease. The biggest psychological war a human being could go through is starvation. Fighting a person by targeting their humanity and dignity. This is the hardest moment … fight as much as you want but let people eat. What’s the fault of civilians?”
12. Islam taking the bread she has collected from the bag, UPSOUND (Arabic) ”We gather the dry bread from trash, and we eat it. What do I tell you. Look, I’m gathering vegetables from the trash. Here’s butter, which I really want but I can’t afford to buy it for 10 shekels and even if it was for one shekel I can’t afford it as no income comes in. It’s hard to gather food from the trash but it is what it is. Here’s a [discarded] box of cheese that I took because there’s some left because my children want it and I can’t afford to buy it for them.”
13. Islam carrying a bag on her back and walking, UPSOUND (Arabic) ”From one garbage dump to another, the bags complained about us, and the street is tired of us. We feel ashamed of ourselves. I swear that I ashamed of myself, but what can I do? My finger is hurting."
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