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GAZA / FOOD DISTRIBUTION
STORY: GAZA / FOOD DISTRIBUTION
TRT: 2.36
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 29 JULY - 07 AND 11 AUGUST 2014, GAZA, PALESTINE
7 AUGUST 2014, GAZA, PALESTINE
1. Wide shot, people carrying WFP food rations home
2. Various shots, workers scooping chickpeas at WFP distribution point
3. Various shots, people receiving wheat flour, oil, pulses, salt and sugar
4. Close up, documents being verified prior to receiving food rations
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Naser, Gaza resident:
“I would like to thank them very much. This is a humanitarian gesture. Despite the difficult situation, they haven’t forgotten the people. This ration helps a lot and I hope they can increase it for big families.”
6. Wide shot, people taking food rations
11 AUGUST 2014, GAZA, PALESTINE
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Raoul Balleto, WFP staff in Gaza:
“Since the beginning of the conflict WFP has been able to reach over 320,000 people and the most important program so far has been the assistance to the displaced persons in the UNRWA shelters, we have assisted 260,000 people daily with our ready to eat rations with bread and canned food and also we have been able to reach other 15,000 people in public shelter and through our voucher programme we managed to assist also 36,000 people in the different affected areas in Gaza strip.”
7 AUGUST 2014, GAZA, PALESTINE
8. Wide shot, Raoul Balleto checking distribution site
11 AUGUST 2014, GAZA, PALESTINE
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Raoul Balleto, WFP staff in Gaza:
“In our plans for the next three weeks there is also blanket distribution
With UNRWA and the Minister of Social Affairs to reach the host families and the people in the affected areas with an assistance planned for over 150,000 families during the next three weeks.”
29 JULY 2014, GAZA, PALESTINE
10. Various shots, destruction
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and its partners launched a special food distribution in Gaza for 730,000 people who are not receiving food under other programmes – in an effort to reach all conflict-affect people in Gaza with some form of food assistance.
Following the announcement of a 72-hour ceasefire, which started Sunday night, WFP and the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) today (11 Aug) started distributing one-time food parcels of 10 kg rice and 30 kg of wheat flour to 143,000 families, amounting to the 730,000 people.
Security situation permitting, the distribution should be completed in two weeks. Prior to this distribution, the combined food assistance programmes of the two agencies in Gaza was already reaching 1.1 million people.
Naser, a Gaza resident, said “I would like to thank them very much. This is a humanitarian gesture. Despite the difficult situation, they haven’t forgotten the people. This ration helps a lot and I hope they can increase it for big families.”
To date, the WFP emergency response has included emergency ready-to-eat food for almost 263,000 displaced people taking refuge in UNRWA schools and nearly 13,000 people in public shelters.
Raoul Balleto, WFP staff in Gaza, said “since the beginning of the conflict WFP has been able to reach over 320,000 people and the most important program so far has been the assistance to the displaced persons in the UNRWA shelters, we have assisted 260,000 people daily with our ready to eat rations with bread and canned food and also we have been able to reach other 15,000 people in public shelter and through our voucher programme we managed to assist also 36,000 people in the different affected areas in Gaza strip.”
The response also included electronic food vouchers to 8,000 displaced families – approximately 48,000 people – who are living with host families. With the vouchers, families can buy nutritious food in nearby shops and with the launch of a joint emergency programme by WFP and UNICEF, voucher recipients can also purchase water and sanitary items.
According to WFP, a total of 2,039 patients and staff in hospitals are receiving emergency food rations.
WFP needs an immediate US$48 million to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to people affected by the conflict in Gaza. In addition, WFP needs US$20 million to continue its regular programmes in Gaza and the West Bank until the end of the year.
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