Скачать или смотреть A charity distributing hot meals to war-weary Palestinians warns stocks are running out

(22 Apr 2025)

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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 21 April 2025
1. Various of charity's worker filling pots' of displaced people with cooked food
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasin Khader, displaced from Rafah: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 3++
"Firewood is expensive. Imagine that a pound of firewood costs 12 to 14 shekels to buy a pound of firewood for cooking once. People have started eating one meal a day. I swear to God this is what is happening to everyone, not just me. Now, there is a flour crisis and the crises are coming because of the closure of the crossings. It has been more than two months and no one cares about us."
3. Various of people reaching out with pots for food distribution.
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rania Haj Yusuf, displaced from Rafah: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 5++
"Amid the closure of crossings, one doesn’t find food to eat, the situation is bad and prices are rising more every day. We are unable to bear it, unable to live, unable to continue our lives like this.”
5. Various of people reaching out with pots for food distribution.
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hani Abu Al-Qasim, owner of charity: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 7++
"Our work is threatened with stopping in the coming days, due to the disappearance of materials from the markets, their unavailability and the high prices as well. This consequently threatens the charity with stopping within a week at most."
7. Various of people reaching out with pots for food distribution.

STORYLINE:
A charity in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis has distributed hot meals to war-weary Palestinians struggling to feed their children over a month after Israel banned the entry of aid into the strip.

Dozens of Palestinians, including children, were waiting in the burning summer sun to receive the meals.

“Amid the closure of crossings, one doesn’t find food to eat,” Rania Haj Yusuf said, adding that food prices have skyrocketed since the ban of aid entry early in March.

“We cannot complete our lives this way.”

The charity has warned that its stock of food is running out.

“Our operations are threatened to stop in the coming days because the (food) material has disappeared from the markets,” Hani Abu Al-Qasim said.

The war has left most of Gaza’s population of over 2 million dependent on international aid.

Aid groups have expressed concerns that gains they made during the six-week ceasefire between January and February to avert famine in parts of the strip have been diminishing.

AP Video by Abdel Kareem Hana, produced by Wafaa Shurafa

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