(21 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir Al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip – 19 July 2025
1. Various of worker filling tanker with water from a desalination plant
2. Various of Luay Abu Nuqairah, water truck driver, filling the truck he works on with water
3. Abu Nuqairah leaving desalination plant with his truck after filling it with water
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Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip – 19 July 2025
4. Various of Abu Nuqairah driving the water truck through streets surrounded by displaced people’s tents
5. Various of displaced people gathering near the truck to fill their containers with water
6. Various of displaced children carrying water gallons to their tents
7. Various of displaced people filling their containers with water
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Awwad Al-Satari, displaced man from Rafah:
"One family barely gets a gallon to use for their home, and a family of ten people who has two gallons – it will not last them three days."
9. Various of man filling a bucket with water
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aya Modallal, displaced woman:
"Now women and men all of them rush to get water, we are sitting in tents just waiting for water, potable water and salty water. My husband used to come but he got hit with a bullet in his head, and it’s still there, so I have to come myself to get water."
11. Various of girl waiting next to empty water gallons
12. Various of child sitting next to a water gallon, as people gathering to get water
13. Various of child carrying containers in a wheelchair
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aya Modallal, displaced woman:
"The water problem is very, very difficult. We spend four or five days without water. The weather is hot and the children want to take a shower and we need to wash their clothes. Basically, they have two pieces of clothing, one to wear and one to wash. We have to bring water to wash them, but it is not available."
15. Water truck leaving the camp of displaced people
16. Various of Abu Nuqairah driving water truck through the displaced people’s tent city
17. Various of people gathering near the truck to collect water
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Luay Abu Nuqairah, water truck driver:
"We try as much as possible to help as many people with the water load, we divide it between three camps or two, sometimes it is for one camp, depending on the number of people. The situation is difficult for people, there are no barrels and there is nothing that people can use (to store water). Salt water is not available, so people try to get as much water as they can and use it for washing, food, drinking and everything."
19. Various of displaced people gathering to collect water
20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Luay Abu Nuqairah, water truck driver:
"I am psychologically exhausted. People’s situation is very difficult. For me, it is exhaustion, fatigue, because lack of food. It is an indescribable feeling."
21. Various of people gathering to collect water
22. Various of hundreds of displaced people’s tents
23. Various of smoke rising after Israeli airstrike
STORYLINE:
With Gaza’s water and sanitation systems decimated by months of war and Israel continuing to block fuel and infrastructure repairs, clean water is in short supply for over 2 million displaced Palestinians.
Many now rely entirely on sporadic truck deliveries.
And when water trucks do turn up, desperate crowds clutching plastic jugs and containers rush to gather around them.
Aya Modallal, a displaced woman, is forced to come to get water as her husband was hit by a bullet while waiting to get water.
The situation has taken its toll on him.
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