(7 Aug 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 6 Aug 2025
1. Various of displaced people carrying empty pots and gathering near charity kitchen
2. Various of displaced women and girls carrying their pots and waiting for food
3. Boy resting his head on metal railing
4. Various of displaced people carrying their empty pots and waiting
5. Charity workers carrying pots of lentil soup and placing them on the ground
6. Various of workers filling displaced people’s pots with lentil soup
7. Girl crying while she is waiting for food
8. Various of women and children holding out pots for food
9. Various of charity workers serving soup to men
10. Young girl crying at front of the crowd
STORYLINE:
Dozens of Palestinians gathered around a charity kitchen with pots and plastic containers in Gaza city on Wednesday as the territory plunges deeper into what experts have called “the worst-case scenario of famine.”
Women and girls were chatting patiently as they waited for the food to arrive.
When charity kitchen workers finally arrived with large pots of soup, the crowd began banging on their pots and yelling, desperate to draw the attention of the servers.
Charity kitchens operating in Gaza mostly serve lentil soup.
On occasion, they serve a side of rice, but that was not the case Wednesday.
Israel implemented a total blockade on trucks entering the Gaza Strip in early March and began allowing aid back in May, although humanitarian organizations say the amount remains far from adequate.
The war has severed families from the means to farm or fish, and the little food that enters the besieged strip is often looted, hoarded and resold at exorbitant prices.
Many rely on charity kitchens to survive.
Hamas-led militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted 251 in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that ignited the war.
They still hold 50 hostages, around 20 of them believed to be alive, after most of the rest were released in ceasefires or other deals.
Israel’s retaliatory military offensive has killed more than 61,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The ministry doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count but says around half the dead have been women and children.
The ministry is part of the Hamas government but is staffed by medical professionals.
The U.N. and other independent experts view its figures as the most reliable casualty count.
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