(23 May 2025)
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Muwasi, Gaza Strip - 23 May 2025
1. Various of charity workers filling pots of displaced people with cooked lentils
2. Various of displaced Palestinians holding empty pots and waiting for food
3. Various of people standing near pots of lentils
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saed Abdeen, owner of food charity:
"The closure of crossings with no entry of food and beverages has significantly impacted us as there is nothing in the markets except lentils."
5. Various of charity workers filling pots of displaced people with cooked lentils
6. Various of people holding pots and waiting
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Mohammad, displaced Palestinian from Rafah:
"There is no medical treatment or food or anything. We’re suffering greatly. We’re spending all days and nights under warplanes and shelling in the midst of a sea of blood, starvation, tears, and pain. No child can eat or a mother able to feed her children and even men are struggling to get a small amount of food for their children. There is no flour and rice is expensive. We have nothing at all. We’re all suffering in different ways."
8. Various of people, including children, holding out their pots towards charity workers
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Halima Abu Amra, displaced Palestinian from Rafah:
"I have a daughter who was martyred and another who is injured. Doctors allowed my injured daughter has to eat bread, but I don’t have bread. My siblings found bread in the street and so I washed it and soaked it so she could eat. Me and her young siblings go by without bread as they eat lentils and go to bed. As for my young daughter, I collected bread from the streets and she eats it."
10. Various of people, including children, holding out their pots towards charity workers
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Halima Abu Amra, displaced Palestinian from Rafah:
"We want this war to end by any way. We starved and died. We are dying slowly. We’re slowly dying."
12. Various of people gathering waiting for food
13. People sitting around pots of lentils
14. Spoon in pot of lentils
STORYLINE:
Palestinians crowded a charity kitchen in southern Gaza on Friday, waiting for food with hunger and desperation heightened by Israel's three-month aid blockade.
Dozens of people held out pots and plastic containers in the hope of receiving a share of the cooked lentils from the workers at the charity in Muwasi near Khan Younis.
After mounting international criticism of its renewed offensive and blockade, Israeli officials said Friday they let in more than 100 trucks of aid, including flour, food, medical equipment and drugs.
But UN agencies say the amount is woefully insufficient, compared with around 600 trucks a day that entered during a recent ceasefire and that are necessary to meet basic needs.
The agencies say Israeli military restrictions and the breakdown of law and order in Gaza make it difficult to retrieve and distribute the aid.
As a result, little of it has so far reached those in need.
Saed Abdeen, the owner of the charity distributing food in Muwasi, said after weeks of blockade lentils were the only supplies they had been able to acquire.
Halima Abu Amra, a displaced Palestinian from Rafah, said she was struggling to feed her injured daughter.
To survive, she collects discarded bread from the streets, washes and soaks it so her daughter can eat, while her younger children survive on lentil soup.
“We want this war to end in any way. We starved and died. We are dying slowly,” Abu Amra said.
Israel says the aid now is to bridge the gap until a U.S. backed initiative starts soon.
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