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STORY: GAZA / AL MAWASI DISPLACED FAMILIES
TRT: 08:08
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: NATS
DATELINE: 24 SEPTEMBER 2024, AL-RASHEED STREET, WEST OF KHAN YOUNIS CITY, AL-MAWASI AREA, GAZA STRIP
1. Various shots, exterior of the entrance to Al-Baraka Orphans Camp
2. Various shots, inside Al-Baraka Orphans Camp showing orphans residing within
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Kallakh, Founder, Al-Baraka Orphans Camp Initiative:
"We are now inside Al-Baraka Orphans City. This city houses more than 400 families of orphans from the 2023 / 2024 war. There are 400 families reside here, and we work to provide care for them through shelter, food, drink, medical care, and educational and social services. We have a dedicated medical centre, and a school supported by the United Nations, through UNICEF, which has provided the necessary resources for the school. They have also supplied stationery and paid the salaries of the teachers. We are now working to fully establish this school, replacing these small tents that you see in front of you, to create a more comfortable environment for the students to receive their education."
4. Various shots, tent doors with the names of the fathers of the orphaned children who were killed during the various Israeli wars on Gaza
5. Various shots, tent gate of the school with a sign reading "Al-Baraka Orphans School"
6. Various shots, classroom set up inside a tent, with a teacher giving lessons to children sitting on the ground holding their notebooks, interacting with the teacher
7. Various shots, inner courtyard of the orphans’ camp, showing children playing in the yard
8. Various shots, Taline Al-Hanawi with her mother while they wash the dishes
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Taline Al-Hanawi, Resident, Al-Baraka Orphans Camp:
"My father was kind to us. I don’t feel like my father was killed. Now, I try to adapt here in the school. We came to Al-Baraka Orphans Camp, and there are many orphans here. We now hope to return to Gaza City and for life to return to normal. We want to go back to school like everyone else. Here in the tents, it’s very hot. Before, we lived in our house and had a normal life."
10. Various shots, inner courtyard of the orphans' camp, showing children playing in the yard
11. Various shots, Nada Al-Ghareeb entering her tent
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nada Al-Ghareeb Resident, Al-Baraka Orphans Camp:
"This war took my father and my only brother. I was injured, and so was my mother. We were trapped in our tent for three days in Khan Younis, where we had fled from the north of Gaza. We had to leave the north and move to the south because the occupation demanded it. We came here, and we were trapped. My father and only brother were killed, and my mother and I were injured. After that, we went to the industrial area west of Khan Younis, where we were also surrounded. After we were treated, we left through the Israeli checkpoints and went to Rafah. Then, we returned from Rafah and came to Al-Baraka Orphans Camp. We felt like this was our second home, especially since everyone around us has the same story and pain. We are like siblings here, and all the mothers are like our own mothers. We love each other here, and although our life is hard, we try to live. This war was very hard for us. My father loved us very much and was kind. He never allowed us to do anything difficult. Now, things are hard for us. We have to fetch water and do things that men usually do, but we have no choice."
13. Various shots, orphans in the yard of Al-Baraka Orphans Camp
14. Various shots, children fetching water inside the camp
15. Various shots, Al-Baraka Orphans Camp from the outside
In the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis city in southern Gaza, around 400 Palestinian families reside in a displacement camp, having lost the family breadwinner (the father) during the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip over the past year.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Kallakh, Founder, Al-Baraka Orphans Camp Initiative:
"We are now inside Al-Baraka Orphans City. This city houses more than 400 families of orphans from the 2023 / 2024 war. There are 400 families reside here, and we work to provide care for them through shelter, food, drink, medical care, and educational and social services. We have a dedicated medical centre, and a school supported by the United Nations, through UNICEF, which has provided the necessary resources for the school. They have also supplied stationery and paid the salaries of the teachers. We are now working to fully establish this school, replacing these small tents that you see in front of you, to create a more comfortable environment for the students to receive their education."
The camp, named "Al-Baraka Orphans Camp," is an initiative led by a teacher named Mahmoud Kallakh, a resident of Khan Younis. UNICEF supports the camp by opening a school inside the camp for the orphans, providing necessary supplies such as stationery and salaries for the teachers who oversee the education of the orphans.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Taline Al-Hanawi, Resident, Al-Baraka Orphans Camp:
"My father was kind to us. I don’t feel like my father was killed. Now, I try to adapt here in the school. We came to Al-Baraka Orphans Camp, and there are many orphans here. We now hope to return to Gaza City and for life to return to normal. We want to go back to school like everyone else. Here in the tents, it’s very hot. Before, we lived in our house and had a normal life."
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nada Al-Ghareeb Resident, Al-Baraka Orphans Camp:
"This war took my father and my only brother. I was injured, and so was my mother. We were trapped in our tent for three days in Khan Younis, where we had fled from the north of Gaza. We had to leave the north and move to the south because the occupation demanded it. We came here, and we were trapped. My father and only brother were killed, and my mother and I were injured. After that, we went to the industrial area west of Khan Younis, where we were also surrounded. After we were treated, we left through the Israeli checkpoints and went to Rafah. Then, we returned from Rafah and came to Al-Baraka Orphans Camp. We felt like this was our second home, especially since everyone around us has the same story and pain. We are like siblings here, and all the mothers are like our own mothers. We love each other here, and although our life is hard, we try to live. This war was very hard for us. My father loved us very much and was kind. He never allowed us to do anything difficult. Now, things are hard for us. We have to fetch water and do things that men usually do, but we have no choice."
According to OCHA’s humanitarian coordinator, Muhannad Hadi, the number of unprotected orphans in Gaza now ranges between 17,000 and 18,000 as a result of the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip since October 7th of last year.
