GAZA / REFUGEES HEALTH CENTRE

Nine UNRWA health centres and 39 UNRWA medical points remain operational. Medical services are critically under-resourced, with two thirds (66 percent) of essential supplies projected to run out in under two months. This includes 32 percent of supplies that are already out of stock. UNIFEED

• Video Length: 00:04:30
• Production Date: 29 April 2025
• Asset Language: Arabic
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAST - UNRWA
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
• Geographic Subject: GAZA
• MAMS Id: 3365967
• Parent Id: 3365967
• Alternate Title: unifeed250429k

Description

STORY: GAZA / REFUGEES HEALTH CENTRE
TRT: 04:30
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 29 APRIL 2025, BEACH CAMP FOR PALESTINIAN REFUGEES IN THE WESTERN PART OF GAZA CITY

Shotlist

1. Various shots, A UNRWA health center building in Beach Camp for Palestinian refugees in the western part of Gaza City
2. Various shots, patients visiting the UNRWA Beach Health Center.
3. Various shots, Rabab Abu Al-Amareen and her child during a consultation with a doctor at the health center, accompanied by an audio clip of her saying: "We came to get treatment, but it's not available."
4. Various shots, Rabab Abu Al-Amareen with her child inside the health center.
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rabab Abu Al-Amareen:
"There aren't enough doctors, and there aren't enough medicines. We come here to fool ourselves, thinking we’ll get some treatment for our children, but we don’t. We get nutritional supplements for our children, but they do nothing. We've come to rely on these supplements for their breakfast and dinner. It’s not like it used to be—they used to eat fish and chicken. Now, we can’t even find a piece of bread or flour. The most basic things are unavailable."
6. Various shots, patients inside the medical center in the vaccination and nutrition section.
7. Various shots, sick children with their families inside the medical center.
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Na’meh Barakat:
"We no longer find food. We used to come to this clinic, and it was never like this. There were many doctors and medicines, but now medicines are extremely limited and largely unavailable."
9. Various shots, UNRWA medical team distributing nutritional supplements to children at the health center.
10. Various shots, a pharmacy at the UNRWA health center in Beach Camp for Palestinian refugees in western Gaza City.
11.   Various shots, pharmacy staff distributing medications to patients.
12.   SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sami Al-Saba
"We come to the clinic and find a very difficult situation—most medicines are not available. Out of every eight types, I find only one or two. There's malnutrition and food scarcity. The health situation has worsened due to poor nutrition. The closure of border crossings has also affected us. We can’t even find medicine, and there’s no money or work."
13.   Various shots, sick children with their families inside the medical center.

Storyline

Nine UNRWA health centres and 39 UNRWA medical points remain operational. Medical services are critically under-resourced, with two thirds (66 percent) of essential supplies projected to run out in under two months. This includes 32 percent of supplies that are already out of stock.

No humanitarian or commercial supplies have entered Gaza for more than seven weeks as all main border crossing points remain closed, driving the worst humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip since October 2023.

According to UNRWA, “this is by far the longest period of aid blockage since the start of the war – food, safe water, shelter, and medical care have become increasingly scarce, and the price of basic supplies continue to soar because of the Israeli imposed siege. Many medical supplies are already out of stock with many more projected to run out over the coming weeks.”

UNRWA health teams are currently providing around 16,000 daily health consultations. No other health partner in Gaza can deliver primary healthcare at this scale. Over 8 million health consultations have been provided by UNRWA since the beginning of the war.

At a UNRWA medical centre in Beach Camp, patients line up daily hoping to receive treatment, but many leave disappointed due to the lack of medications.

Rabab Abu Al-Amareen, a mother of two, said, “There aren't enough doctors or medicines. We come here hoping to find treatment for our children, but we find nothing. We now rely on nutritional supplements for their meals. There is no bread, no flour—nothing basic is available.”

Na’meh Barakat, another patient, said, “The clinic used to be full of doctors and medicine. Now, resources are catastrophically scarce.”

UNRWA also reported that “fifty-seven of essential medicines have depleted or have only one month stock available. In addition to the Israeli imposed siege on the Gaza Strip, blocking supplies for more than 50 days, there is also internal difficulty to move supplies from southern Gaza to northern Gaza due to access restrictions.”