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STORY: WFP / GAZA MALNUTRITION
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SOURCE: WFP
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LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS
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25 MARCH 2024, DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA STRIP
1. Various shots, tent city for displaced people
25 MARCH 2024, RAFAH, GAZA STRIP
2. Various shots, International Medical Corps Field Hospital
3. Various shots, patients
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shaima Al-Zant, mother:
“There is nothing in Gaza City. None of life’s basics. There are no vegetables, fruits, meat, nothing for anyone to eat. He’s been deprived of this, so his body weakened, he lost a lot of weight and became dehydrated. He also has cystic fibrosis in his chest, which also affected his conditions.“
5. Various shots, patients being tested
26 MARCH 2024, GAZA CITY
6. Various shots, destruction in Gaza
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Hollingworth, Country Director in Palestine, World Food Programme (WFP):
“There is nowhere else in the world where so many people face imminent famine. Here in Gaza City we're at the epicenter of the crisis here in the Gaza strip. Today I've met so many people who are angry and tired and despairing because their children go to sleep every night hungry. They’re old people, the elderly are fading away because of a lack of nutrition. They themselves are desperately seeking every day the aid that they need to survive, and we are simply not getting enough into Gaza City and the north of the Strip”
8. Various shots, destruction in Gaza
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Hollingworth, Country Director in Palestine, World Food Programme (WFP):
“We desperately need the conditions to get access every day to be flooding this area with food assistance if we're going to prevent famine, prevent further death, prevent wasting amongst children, prevent really the desperate situation that is already in place.”
16 MARCH 2024, DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA STRIP
10. Various shots, people walking amongst destruction
13 MARCH 2024, DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA STRIP
11. Various shots, WFP hot meals being prepared, distributed and eaten
According to the World Food Programme (WFP), famine is imminent in the north of Gaza.
Malnutrition among children is proceeding at a record pace, and one of three children below the age of two is now acutely malnourished or “wasted”.
Parents are not eating for days at time so that their children can.
Some 70 percent of the population in the North is facing catastrophic hunger.
WFP is providing desperately needed food to 1.45 million people in Gaza each month.
WFP distributes ready-to-eat food parcels, hot meals, wheat flour and specialized products to stave off malnutrition.
WFP has only managed to send 11 convoys with food to the north since the start of the year.
Yet daily deliveries are needed to halt famine.
Most food is distributed in Rafah and Deir El Balah, and very little assistance reaches people elsewhere.
To support existing systems and the local economy, WFP is also helping bakeries get back on their feet by providing them with wheat flour and other necessary resources to operate.
The 11 WFP convoys which managed to reach the north in March brought food for 74,000 people.
Together with partners, WFP have enough food supplies ready to feed all 2.2 million people across Gaza.
WFP said that needs Israel to allow more routes into Gaza, including from the north, and use of Ashdod port.
WFP also said that it needs humanitarian staff and supplies to move freely, and the people of Gaza to access assistance safely.
WFP warned that as famine closes in, an Israeli land offensive in southern Gaza would make their task even harder.
