Desperate crowd of adults and children seek portion of some of the last food aid left in Gaza: rice

Описание: (2 May 2025)
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++PLEASE NOTE THIS EDIT CONTAINS DISTRESSED CHILDREN WAITING FOR FOOD TO BE HANDED OUT++

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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 2 May 2025
1. Various of distressed girl shouting and crying who appears to have dropped her pot
2. Man bending down and retrieving pot for her
3. Various of charity workers filling displaced people's pots with cooked rice
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mustafa Ashour, displaced man from Rafah:
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"We come from far away, walking for an hour and waiting for two hours to get food from the charity kitchen. The situation is hard in Gaza. The crossings are closed. It’s a full siege. There is no food. There is no water. There are no life necessities. The food being sold is expensive and very little. We come here from far away to get food."
5. Various of girls crying while waiting for food
6. Various of boys and men waiting for food with empty pots
7. Various of charity workers filling pots with cooked food
8. Various of Niveen Abu Arar, displaced woman from Rafah, carrying her empty pot back to her tent without food
9. Various of Abu Arar sitting with her children by empty pot
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Niveen Abu Arar, displaced woman from Rafah:
"We went and we couldn’t even find a dish of rice to get for our children and I came home with tears in my eyes and I was screaming. How long will life be like this? We’re slowly dying."
11. Various of Abu Arar sitting with her children inside their tent
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Niveen Abu Arar, displaced woman from Rafah:
"We haven’t eaten bread for a month and a half. There is no flour. There is nothing. We don’t know what to do… We don’t have money. What do we get for them? Our situation is hard."
13. Various of Abu Arar's daughter sitting on her lap
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Niveen Abu Arar, displaced woman from Rafah:
"My baby daughter has no milk or diapers. She has become malnourished because of the lack of food. Our situation is getting worse. Since the famine the children have lost weight because of the lack of food."
15. Various of Abu Arar filling milk bottle with water and feeding her baby
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Niveen Abu Arar, displaced woman from Rafah:
"There is no milk so I replace it with water. I used to get by using sugar but now there is no sugar. I give her some water and she drinks it and she eats food I get from the charity kitchen with us, if I manage to get some. But milk has been cut off for her. I used to give her a supplement but that isn't available either now. I can’t take her to a doctor. There is no transportation."
17. Abu Arar carrying her baby and empty pot, waiting for food from her neighbor
18. Various of Abu Arar receiving food from her neighbor and taking it back to her children
19. Various of Abu Arar eating with her children
20. Various of Abu Arar feeding her baby rice
STORYLINE:
Amid a crowd of desperate children clamouring for food, one young girl screamed in distress.

She was one of dozens crowded around a charity kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza on Friday, pushing and jostling in a frantic attempt to get something to eat.

Israel’s two-month aid blockade of the territory has cut off the territory from all outside supplies of food, fuel and medicine.

Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare.

The only meal being served at the charity kitchen on Friday was rice.

Mustafa Ashour, a man displaced from Rafah, told the AP he had walked for an hour and waited another two to fill his pot with rice.


But Ashour was one of the lucky ones.










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