Palestinians in Gaza struggle to access drinking water amid ongoing humanitarian crisis

Описание: (15 Jun 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 14 June 2025
1. Wide of a refugee camp in Gaza Strip
2. Various of people gathering near a pickup truck carrying water to fill their plastic buckets and containers with drinking water
3. Various of people putting their buckets in line waiting for their turn to fill those buckets with water
4. People jostling each other to fill their water buckets
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Youssra Youssef, resident of Gaza:
“Right now, as you can see, we’re running to get water just to drink. We run to the charity kitchen just to eat and get a bit of soup. Bread is missing, all vegetables, all kinds of food are missing. Of course, our health has deteriorated. Our bones have weakened. There’s nothing left, nothing that sustains life. To be honest, we’re just living as walking corpses. There’s absolutely no element or sign of life left, unfortunately.”
6. Several men and children gathering near the water truck
7. Various of child trying to fill water in a plastic container with a glass
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Hassouna, Gazan resident:
“I came to fill water. I stood for half an hour or an hour waiting for my turn, and there wasn’t enough water. They’re supposed to increase the amount of water for the people, you know there are many people. God willing, things will get better. As you can see, I wasn’t able to fill (my containers). I didn’t manage to fill them. They really need to increase the amount for the people.”
9. Child and man carrying water in plastic containers to their tents
10. Wide of refugee camp
STORYLINE:
Palestinians in Gaza struggle to get not just food and supplies, but also water.

Children and adults wait, sometimes for hours, out in the hot sun, to fill a bucket or a couple of bottles with clean water.

"We are running after water just to drink," said Youssra Youssef, a local resident. "We run to the charity kitchen just to eat and get a bit of soup. Bread is missing, all vegetables, all kinds of food are missing."

She added: "We’re just living as walking corpses."

There's not enough water for the large numbers living in the camp.

Mohammad Hassouna, a resident of Gaza, said that he stood for about an hour waiting for his turn to fill a few bottles of water only to be left with nothing.

“There isn’t enough water," he said. "They really need to increase the amount for the people."

Israel has blocked the entry of supplies and aid to the territory for almost three months, only now allowing in a small amount for the more than 2 million people living in the Gaza Strip.

Humanitarian organizations say it is too little.

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