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STORY: WFP / GAZA HOT MEALS DISTRIBUTION
TRT: 02:01
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / ARABIC NATS
DATELINE: 24 NOVEMBER 2024, DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA, PALESTINE / 18 NOVEMBER 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA, PALESTINE / 27 NOVEMBER 2024, JERUSALEM, PALESTINE
24 NOVEMBER 2024, DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA, PALESTINE
1. Various shots, camps for displaced Gazans hit by heavy winds
18 NOVEMBER 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA, PALESTINE
2. Various shots, people waiting outside bakery
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Muhammad, Displaced Person:
“We are displaced from the north. I come from Al Rimal area. I have three kids; the oldest is 11 and the youngest is a year and three months. I swear that I feed them bread and tea. If I go home without this bread bundle, my kids would starve to death.”
4. Various shots, people waiting outside bakery
27 NOVEMBER 2024, JERUSALEM, PALESTINE
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Antoine Renard, Palestine Country Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“The levels of hunger, devastation and destruction we are seeing now in Gaza is worse than ever before. People cannot cope anymore. There is barely any food coming in while markets are empty. Now with the rain and winter sweeping away tents, it is a daily struggle for survival.”
18 NOVEMBER 2024, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA, PALESTINE
6. Various shots, WFP hot meals distribution
Despite the mounting challenges, the World Food Programme (WFP) has reached around 815,000 people with some form of aid in November. About half a million people received a single food parcel, considered to be one third of the normal monthly ration, while around 300,000 have received hot meals.
As Gazans struggle to survive another winter living in makeshift shelters the amounts of food assistance reaching Gazans are at their lowest levels in a year. With almost all Gazans displaced, the heavy rain and wind is damaging the makeshift shelters. Many children are without shoes.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Muhammad, Displaced Person:
“We are displaced from the north. I come from Al Rimal area. I have three kids; the oldest is 11 and the youngest is a year and three months. I swear that I feed them bread and tea. If I go home without this bread bundle, my kids would starve to death”
WFP-supported bakeries across the Strip are shut or risk closure daily due to the lack of wheat flour and fuel.
SOUNDBITE (English) Antoine Renard, Palestine Country Director, World Food Programme (WFP):
“The levels of hunger, devastation and destruction we are seeing now in Gaza is worse than ever before. People cannot cope anymore. There is barely any food coming in while markets are empty. Now with the rain and winter sweeping away tents, it is a daily struggle for survival.”
The escalating conflict in the North and breakdown of public order in the South risk tipping Gaza into famine. Gaza is currently facing unacceptable levels of food insecurity: no fresh food (fruit, vegetables, meat, fish), empty shops, bakeries nearly non-operable (lack of fuel/flour).
The humanitarian response in Gaza is nearing collapse as the threat of famine gets closer. The breakdown of law and order and disregard for international humanitarian principles are placing humanitarian staff, operations and the people of Gaza at increasing risk.
WFP and partner humanitarian agencies need solutions that address the breakdown of law and order, and for all parties to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law to allow for the safe passage of aid.
Food security in Gaza is worsening with people becoming more vulnerable by the day. November is the third month in a row where more than half the population who rely on WFP assistance did not receive it. Barely any food has gone into North Gaza for 50 days.
WFP was able to bring just 26 percent of the needed 7900 metric tons of food into Gaza in November. More than 90 percent of the population expected to be in crisis levels of food insecurity, or worse, from November according to latest IPC.
