WFP / RAFAH CROSSING OPENING
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STORY: WFP / RAFAH CROSSING OPENING
TRT: 3:13
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15-21 OCTOBER 2023, GAZA, PALESTINE / 21 OCTOBER 2023, CAIRO, EGYPT
21 OCTOBER 2023, GAZA, PALESTINE
1. Various shots, trucks Carrying WFP food and other urgently needed supplies arrive in Gaza from Egypt
21 OCTOBER 2023, CAIRO, EGYPT
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Cindy McCain, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“Today, 20 trucks were allowed to cross the border all containing emergency supplies, three of which were WFP trucks, I’m happy to say, containing life-saving food on board. What we plan to do it is distribute that, but this cannot be the last convoy. We need to have sustained, safe access to be able to get our trucks across the border so we can feed the millions of people that are dependent on emergency food.”
15 OCTOBER 2023, BUREIJ CAMP, GAZA, PALESTINE
3. Various shots, WFP bread being distributed to displaced families
15 OCTOBER 2023, DEIR AL-BALAH PREPARATORY SCHOOL, DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA, GAZA, PALESTINE
4. Various shots, displaced families who fled their homes living at Al-Bureij Primary School
16 OCTOBER 2023, AL-KARAMA NORTH OF GAZA CITY, GAZA, PALESTINE
5. Various shots, first responders look for survivors in destroyed buildings and carry out the injured and dead
16 OCTOBER 2023, Al-Rimal, GAZA CITY, GAZA, PALESTINE
6. Various shots, destruction, people on the move with their belongings.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed today’s (21 Oct) opening of the border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, which enabled a first convoy of trucks to bring in urgently needed food, water and other supplies provided by the Egyptian Red Crescent and the United Nations for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been struggling amid desperate conditions.
The convoy, which moved through the Rafah crossing Saturday brought with it three trucks carrying 47 metric tons of WFP emergency food. The supplies include canned tuna, wheat flour, pasta, canned beans and canned tomato paste.
20 trucks including 3 WFP trucks carrying canned tuna and food parcels came over in this first shipment today.
SOUNDBITE (English) Cindy McCain, Executive Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“Today, 20 trucks were allowed to cross the border all containing emergency supplies, three of which were WFP trucks, I’m happy to say, containing life-saving food on board. What we plan to do it is distribute that, but this cannot be the last convoy. We need to have sustained, safe access to be able to get our trucks across the border so we can feed the millions of people that are dependent on emergency food.”
WFP has another 930 metric tons of emergency food items at or near the Rafah border, ready to be brought into Gaza whenever access is allowed again. The stocks are needed to replenish WFP’s rapidly dwindling supplies inside Gaza.
Since the start of the crisis, some 520,000 people have received WFP food assistance. WFP is expanding its operation to support 1.1 million people in Gaza in the next two months.
Assistance includes fresh bread delivered daily to Gazans in UN shelters in areas where access is allowed. WFP supplies flour to contracted bakeries, which produce bread for distribution. However, in recent days many bakeries have stopped working because of lack of power and fuel. On Wednesday, one was hit.
WFP has also been providing cash vouchers which can be redeemed in food shops. Some 275,000 people have received this form of assistance so far. But with commercial food stocks running low, more food needs to be brought into Gaza urgently.