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STORY: WFP / GAZA HUNGER
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SOURCE: WFP
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LANGUAGES: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: PLEASE SEE THE SHOTLIST FOR DETAILS
08-10 DECEMBER 2024, GAZA CITY
1. Wide shot, Gaza City destruction
According to the UN, at least 1.9 million people – or about 90 per cent of the population – across the Gaza Strip are displaced. Many have been displaced repeatedly, some 10 times or more.
09, 11 DECEMBER 2024, GAZA CITY
2. Various shots, burning smoke from airstrikes over Marina of Gaza City/Israeli Navy Boat
Throughout Gaza, day and night, there is the constant sound of drones and other sustained military activity from air, sea and ground.
09 DECEMBER 2024, GAZA CITY
3. Various shots, overflowing cemeteries
11 DECEMBER 2024, KHAN YOUNIS
4. Various shots, destroyed Mosque, wedding dress shop, homes
06 DECEMBER 2024, KHAN YOUNIS
5. Med shot, Nabil Abu Azad looking at the ruins of his taxicab
Nabil Abu Azad was a taxi driver before the war.
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nabil Abu Azad:
“I used to work as a taxi driver. This car would help me make 30-40 shekels a month.”
7. Wide shot, exterior Nabil’s Apartment Building
Nabil’s apartment building was severely damaged during military operations. It is now one of the few standing structures left in what was once a densely inhabited neighborhood. Despite it being in danger of collapsing in the sandy soil, Nabil decided that danger was less risky than staying in the tents he and his family were forced to stay in last year.
Nabil removed the rubble out of the remains of his home and rebuilt some walls using mud to be able to live there with his family. His kids cleared the rubble in the street and planted a vegetable garden.
8. Wide shot, people carrying their belongings through destroyed homes in Nabil’s neighborhood
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nabil Abu Azad:
“This area used to be a balcony, and there was a room here”
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nabil Abu Azad:
“This kitchen wall had also collapsed, and we repaired it with clay, as you can see here. This is how we rebuilt it using clay. I am very scared when it rains, as the wall might collapse again because everything was rebuilt with clay.”
11. Wise shot, Nabil exiting his home
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nabil Abu Azad:
“This was all rubble when we came back. Our kids started cleaning the place and land when we got here because we didn’t have food to eat, and we didn’t have money to buy anything. They brought seeds of greens we like to consume and planted them here for family consumption and to sell the excess.”
13. Wide shot, Nabil’s kids picking salad from their vegetable garden
16 NOVEMBER 2024, KEREM SHALOM
14. Wide shot, WFP trucks being looted
11 DECEMBER 2024, DEIR ALBALAH
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Yasmin Maydhane, WFP Gaza Emergency Coordinator:
“Law has broken down, the rules have broken down because there is no governance structure which means that we as a humanitarian community are having to face the consequences of one not having access facilitated by the Israelis and impediments in our ability to move trucks but also having to deal with the consequences on the ground from the community that when they need food we just can't get to there as quickly as they need it which means that creates an environment where people take matters into their own hands which means it allows for an environment for criminality”
10 OCTOBER 2024, GAZA CITY
15. Various shots, little girl waiting patiently at WFP Hot Meals Distribution
This hot-meals kitchen serves thousands of hot meals daily to families who have nothing to sustain themselves and to families who lost everything they had with constant displacement. For some of these families the meal, they get from this kitchen is all they eat in their day.
A ceasefire in Gaza is long overdue. Life is on pause for over two million people without access to proper food, water, shelter, and education. Despite continuous humanitarian efforts to deliver life-saving aid, it is impossible to meet people’s needs in the current scenario of conflict, insecurity, and restrictions.
• For over two months, areas in North Gaza such as Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahya have remained cut off from assistance. Humanitarians are repeatedly denied access, despite reports of appalling conditions.
• Areas in southern and central Gaza continue to suffer severe shortages of food and other essential goods as looting incidents prevent the delivery of sufficient aid.
• Hunger is on the rise – people have lost their lives while queuing at overcrowded bakeries, distributions are severely restricted, and any food found in the markets is too expensive for people. A 25-kg bag of wheat flour is around USD 150 when found.
November was the third month in a row in which only a third of the food WFP needed to reach people was allowed to enter Gaza. When food is allowed in, the breakdown of law and order, make it hard to deliver even that limited amount of aid to the people in need. WFP is doing everything it can: getting aid through every open crossing when possible, repairing roads, delivering to partners, kitchens, and bakeries. But it is not enough.
• Over one million people in Gaza have not received a proper food ration from WFP since August.
• In December, WFP has again been forced to reduce rations, stretching the limited resources available to reach more people. So far, we have reached over half a million people with one food parcel and/or one bag of wheat flour. Around 250,000 people have received hot meals from 66 WFP-supported kitchens across Gaza.
• In November, WFP already reduced rations to be able to reach a million people. Those rations barely suffice for 10 days. Around 600,000 people in southern and central Gaza received one food parcel (canned food, rice, pasta, lentils, vegetable oil, tomato paste, halva bars) and/or one bag of wheat flour.
• Bakeries in the south and centre are currently closed due to a shortage of supplies. Hot meals kitchens continue providing one meal a day to around 200,000 people.
• In Gaza City, distributions, hot meals and bakeries continue for around 300,000 people.
• WFP has been attempting to move commodities into southern and central Gaza through Kerem Shalom, Kissufim, and Gate 96, but the insecurity surrounding the crossings continuously places people, staff, and supplies at risk.
o Around 1,600 trucks of food (30,200 tons) can arrive safely each month to facilitate distributions of food for over 1 million people. In order to reach everyone in need, we would need UNRWA’s support.
o All border crossings are open, entry into and across Gaza is facilitated, fast coordination and facilitation of movement on the ground between the south and north Gaza.
o All parties ensure the safe passage of aid, and f law and order is restored, reducing insecurity and instances of looting.
o Commercial flows to Gaza are reinstated so there is access to essential fresh food and also to other basic necessities.
o Ceasefire conditions are respected.
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