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STORY: WFP / WEST BANK FOOD INSECURITY
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SOURCE: WFP
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LANGUAGES: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
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10 FEBRUARY 2025, JENIN
1. Various shots, Israeli military bulldozers rip up paved roads, water pipes and sewage pipes
Military operations in the northern West Bank have caused severe damage to water and sanitation infrastructure, disrupting access to water to tens of thousands of people and heightening public health concerns.
12 FEBRUARY 2025, JENIN
2. Various shots, destroyed homes
Tens of thousands of people remain internally displaced in Jenin and Tulkarm. Throughout the West Bank, more than 40,000 people have been displaced since mid-January 2025, including farmers and herders who can no longer access their lands.
18 FEBRUARY 2025, EL FARA’A
3. Various shots, El Fara’a Camp
More than 11,000 people are living in this camp
4. Various shots, aftermath of destruction to paved roads, water, sanitation and homes
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shaher Mahmoud Shqerat:
“We’re talking about basic infrastructure—phones, water, streets, and all essential services people rely on were destroyed”
6. Various shots, the Palestinian Authority are repairing destroyed paved roads
7. Various shots, Israeli military checkpoints
Since mid-January, Israeli forces have intensified access restrictions across the West Bank, severely impeding Palestinians' access to markets, workplaces, emergency services, as well as health and educational facilities. At least 20 new gates have been installed at the entrances of towns and villages, alongside new roadblocks, earth mounds, and trench fences, further restricting movement on secondary access routes.
23 FEBRUARY 2025, RAMALLAH-BETHLEHEM ROAD
8. Various shots, blocked traffic
Traffic lined up as far as the eye can see waiting for the “container” checkpoint to open on the main road that connects the southern part of the West Bank to the north. The disruption of transport of people going to their workplaces, food from farms to markets and other essentials has upturned the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
Wide shot, roadblocks and checkpoints send Palestinian cars off well-paved roads and onto rutted paths through open fields.
23 FEBRUARY 2025, JERICHO
9. Various shots, farmer’s field, unloading produce at market
07 MARCH 2025, JERUSALEM
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Antoine Renard, Palestine Country Director, WFP:
“Military operation in the West Bank that started on 21st of January have destroyed homes, camps, roads and infrastructure leading to the largest displacement since 1967. Some communities are now isolated because of the number of roadblocks and military checkpoints, which also prevent Palestinians from accessing their jobs, impeding access to food and essential services. WFP warns that the food security crisis in the West Bank would devastate livelihoods, disrupt markets and create dependency on humanitarian assistance. We cannot afford that.”
23 FEBRUARY 2025, KHIRBET MAK-HUL
11. Various shots, heard, fields, Burham Bishart
Burham is a 51 yr old shepherd with wife and 10 children who range from 6-26 yrs. His children are all acheivers and include a Phd in sociology, compter scientists a veteranian and several teachers but they haven’t been able to visit due to the increasing number of checkpoints. His goat herd grazes on this land that he has had since 2003 but Israeli military camps and settlements, including one on the hill above his house, have been moving into the area reducing access to grazing land. Herding communities in the northern Jordan Valley are facing increasing restrictions on their ability to access grazing lands due to settler violence, which have further undermined their livelihoods. Over the past two years, Bedouin and herding communities, which rely on livestock grazing as their primary source of income, have suffered from a severe reduction in already limited available pastureland. Palestinian herders are being forced to graze their animals in increasingly confined areas near their shelters.
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Burham Bishart:
“You can’t do anything if a settler comes. Even if you want to shout at him, he just ends up calling the police or the army.”
13. Various shots, Burham’s wife, Najeya bakes bread using flour provided by WFP
WFP is also providing food assistance to over 40,000 Bedouins who live in remote areas with limited access to markets. Their livelihoods are under pressure due to attacks on their land and the resulting displacement. WFP provides wheat flour to help these families to meet their food requirements.
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Burham Bishart:
“If we stay here for another year or so, it’s possible they won’t even let us leave our house; we will just be stuck with the sheep in the middle of our house.// All that matters to me is living in peace, raising my children, and ensuring my daughters study, learn, graduate, and become doctors or engineers. These are the things that matter in my life.”
15. Various shots, Burham and a neighbor eat bread made with WFP flour
WFP is increasingly concerned about growing food insecurity in the West Bank, where military activity, displacement, and movement restrictions are disrupting markets and limiting access to food.
Tens of thousands of people in the West Bank have been displaced since mid-January. These disruptions and the worsening economic conditions over the last year are putting upward pressure on prices. With rising displacement and unemployment, even basic food items have become unaffordable for many families.
WFP is supporting more than 190,000 people with monthly cash vouchers and has provided one-off assistance to 16,000 people most in need. Humanitarian cash assistance can be delivered efficiently through local supply chains and markets. It also helps to stabilize the economy.
WFP needs 265 million dollars in funding for the next six months for operations to assist 1.4 million people in Gaza and the West Bank.
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