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STORY: GAZA / HYGIENE SUPPLIES SHORTAGE
TRT: 4:28
SOURCE: UN NEWS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 06 JULY 2024, AL-RASHID STREET, WEST OF DEIR AL-BALAH CITY, CENTRAL GAZA STRIP
1. Various shots, tents where displaced people stay
2. Various shots, Al-Taluli family washing clothes
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Muhammad Al-Talouli, displaced person from East Al-Bureij Camp, Central Gaza Strip:
“We suffer from lack of cleaning supplies. There is no soap, detergent or anything. I mean, the price of soap, even if it is available in the Gaza Strip, we cannot buy it. The price of the scented soap is 25 shekels. I don't have 25 shekels to buy soap, and I don't have 25 shekels to buy laundry detergent. They say that the crossing is closed. We ask people outside to open the crossing and bring us the things we need, including soap, cleaning supplies and other things.”
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sabah Al-Talouli, Al-Talouli’s wife:
“We have absolutely nothing. I swear to God, I don't have money to buy food, let alone buy a bottle of shampoo or soap. It's a very bad situation. I have lice in my hair due to lack of soap. I am an adult woman, I have never had lice, but due to lack of soap I have lice. Has this ever happened, my brother. An adult woman brushes her hair and lice come out of it. Why? Due to the lack of necessary supplies, no one takes care of us.”
5. Various shots, market in the city of Deir al-Balah
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ayham Bashir, a resident of the city of Al-Balah:
“The lack of personal hygiene is apparent on the bodies of all the people in all governorates of Gaza, because there are no cleaning supplies or soap. There is nothing. You find nothing to wash your hands.”
7. Various shots, market in the city of Deir al-Balah
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nasser Al-Kurdi, displaced from Al-Bureij Camp, Central Gaza Strip:
“Even the soap we bathe with does not exist, the shampoo does not exist. Epidemics and diseases have spread among people and among children. A very terrible thing. It is all a small area. The whole of Gaza does not accommodate 2.5 million people. Imagine when they confine the residents to Deir El-Balah and Khan Younis and place two million people in this area. The person who sneezes in Deir El-Balah could be heard in Khan Yunis. Diseases spread at a very fast rate. When you go to the pharmacy to get medicine, they tell you that there is an alternative that may or may not work for you.”
9. Various shots, Al-Sayed working at his cleaning supplies store
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Kenan Al-Sayed, Owner of a Cleaning Supplies Store:
“The entry of the dyes has also stopped. We are using food dyes instead of the original dyes for liquid soap. In addition, many things have been interrupted, so we have found an alternative for them. With the closure of the crossings, the entry of supplies to us has stopped.”
11. Various shots, Al-Sayed working at his cleaning supplies store
Due to the lack of clean water and personal hygiene materials, infectious diseases are spreading amongst displaced people in Gaza.
The Al-Taluli family are displaced from East Al-Bureij Camp to the west of Deir al-Balah in the middle of the Gaza Strip.
Muhammad Al-Talouli said, “We suffer from lack of cleaning supplies. There is no soap, detergent or anything. I mean, the price of soap, even if it is available in the Gaza Strip, we cannot buy it. The price of the scented soap is 25 shekels. I don't have 25 shekels to buy soap, and I don't have 25 shekels to buy laundry detergent. They say that the crossing is closed. We ask people outside to open the crossing and bring us the things we need, including soap, cleaning supplies and other things.”
Sabah, Al-Talouli’s wife said, “We have absolutely nothing. I swear to God, I don't have money to buy food, let alone buy a bottle of shampoo or soap. It's a very bad situation.”
Sabah added, "I have lice infested in my head due to the lack of soap."
In the main market of the city of Deir al-Balah, people cannot find any types of cleaning materials available.
Aiham Basheer, a resident of the city of Deir Al-Balah, said that he searched the market to buy cleaning supplies and did not find anything.
He said, “The lack of personal hygiene is apparent on the bodies of all the people in all governorates of Gaza, because there are no cleaning supplies or soap. There is nothing. You find nothing to wash your hands.”
Nasser Al-Kurdi, displaced from Al-Bureij Camp, said, “Epidemics and diseases have spread among people and among children. A very terrible thing. It is all a small area. The whole of Gaza does not accommodate 2.5 million people. Imagine when they confine the residents to Deir El-Balah and Khan Younis and place two million people in this area. The person who sneezes in Deir El-Balah could be heard in Khan Yunis. Diseases spread at a very fast rate. When you go to the pharmacy to get medicine, they tell you that there is an alternative that may or may not work for you.”
In the same market, Kenan Al-Sayed works on manufacturing alternative and primitive cleaning materials to overcome the problem of the shortage of cleaning materials.
He said, “The entry of the dyes has also stopped. We are using food dyes instead of the original dyes for liquid soap. In addition, many things have been interrupted, so we have found an alternative for them. With the closure of the crossings, the entry of supplies to us has stopped.”
