(23 Aug 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++UPDATES HEADLINE – CHANGING GAZA CITY RESIDENTS TO PALESTINIANS++
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Gaza City – 23 August 2025
1. Thousands of Palestinians returning from Zikim area, some carrying aid packages
2. Various of people walking, smoke plume in background
3. Various of people carrying injured man
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim al-Genedy, displaced from northern Gaza:
"I came today carrying my soul on the palm of my hand to get food and drinks for my children. Unfortunately, the price we pay is human beings who die for nothing, martyr after another, injured after another, there are no hospitals to treat (us), why a 30-year-old like me runs after a kilo of lentils, a kilo of flour?"
5. Various of people walking, some carrying aid packages
6. Truck filled with people, some carrying aid packages
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohamed Saada, displaced from Beit Hanoun:
"I came here to bring food for my children but couldn’t get anything due to the huge numbers of people and the difficulty of situation between the shootings and the trucks running over people, people are all over each other."
8. Various of people carrying aid packages
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amna Ahmed, Gaza resident:
"We were displaced 12 times, now we returned to our homes that were reduced into rubble, living in camps but we are terrified of the displacement word because we don’t have any ability, whether financial or physical and we don’t have any more belongings to build tents or houses. We are very tired, and what you are watching now is a death train. They (Israel) are killing us in every way."
10. Various of trucks filled with people, some carrying aid packages
STORYLINE:
A day after the world’s leading authority on food crises said the Gaza Strip’s largest city was gripped by famine, Palestinians were seen returning from the Zikim area, where hundreds go every day trying to get aid from the trucks with supplies entering the enclave.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, said on Friday famine is happening in Gaza City, home to hundreds of thousands, and could spread south to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis by the end of next month.
Carrying a bag of aid, Ibrahim al-Genedy a displaced man from northern Gaza, said on Saturday that he risks his life to bring food for his children.
"I came today carrying my soul on the palm of my hand to get food and drinks for my children. Unfortunately, the price we pay is human beings who die for nothing, martyr after another, injured after another” he said.
The IPC report comes after months of warnings by humanitarian groups that Israel’s restrictions of food and other aid into Gaza, and its military offensive, were causing starvation among Palestinian civilians, particularly children.
Israel rejected the report, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling it an “outright lie.”
Netanyahu accused Hamas of starving the Israeli hostages that remain in captivity in Gaza.
The grim milestone — the first time the IPC has confirmed a famine in the Middle East — is sure to ramp up international pressure on Israel, which has been fighting Hamas since the militant group’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack. Israel says it plans to seize Gaza City and other Hamas strongholds, an escalation experts say will exacerbate the hunger crisis.
The IPC said hunger has been driven by fighting and the blockade of aid, and magnified by widespread displacement and the collapse of food production in Gaza, pushing hunger to life-threatening levels across the entire territory after 22 months of war.
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