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STORY: GAZA / HUNGER LACK OF AID
TRT: 05:33
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 08 APRIL 2025, GAZA CITY
1. Various shots, massive destruction of buildings and infrastructure
2. Various shots, Ahmad Al-Kafarneh, a person with disabilities, displaced with his family from Beit Hanoun
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmad Al-Kafarneh, displaced:
"Due to the closure of Gaza and the lack of flour and bakery shutdowns, life has become extremely difficult for us and our children. We can barely manage one meal a day for them, and I put them to bed early because there’s no food. As for drinking water, we have no access to any source of clean water, and on rare occasions, trucks deliver potable water. We also lack medicine, medical treatment, and hygiene supplies entirely."
4. Various shots, Samir Abu Amsha, displaced from Beit Lahia to central Gaza City, suffering from skin cancer
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Samir Abu Amsha, displaced:
"There is no aid. We currently survive only on rice, which doesn’t fill us up. I’ve started suffering from diarrhea due to eating so much rice. Thank God we’re still alive."
6. Various shots, Mustafa Ghanem, displaced from Jabalia, sitting in front of his tent
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mustafa Ghanem, displaced:
"Aside from the meals provided by the communal kitchen, we can’t afford food. My children and I usually have lunch but skip dinner, as do most people. Sometimes we eat lunch and not dinner, and vice versa. We suffer from chronic illnesses and have no jobs. I am disabled, and my wife has suffered three strokes in the past 50 days due to our dire financial situation."
8. Various shots, Ibtihal Ghanem taking up baking bread using a clay oven to support her family
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibtihal Ghanem:
"I work on a small clay oven, and I make about 10 to 15 shekels a day. I support twelve family members. We rely on meals from the communal kitchen, which are sometimes available and sometimes not. My husband is unemployed, and so is my uncle. We have no income. We received some aid a long time ago, but we haven’t gotten anything since."
10. Various shots, displacement tents
11. Various shots, family of Um Al-Abed Shatat, displaced from Beit Hanoun to central Gaza City.
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Al-Abed Shatat, displaced:
"The family has no income at all. No one asks about us. If meals from the communal kitchen are available, we eat; if not, we go without and try to manage. Living in tents is unbearable because of the extreme heat. I escape to a nearby building just to sit in the shade until it cools down, then return to the tent. That’s how we live—day after day, searching for water, searching for food to feed the children, and trying to survive."
13. Various shots, overcrowded tents, destroyed buildings
14. Various shots, potable water truck operated by UNRWA
15. Various shots, displaced persons' tents, rubble from destroyed homes, children on cart carrying water containers
Residents of the Gaza Strip are facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, marked by severe shortages of food and water, and a deterioration in economic and living conditions, as the war continues, and humanitarian aid remains barred from entering the territory for over a month.
The vast majority of the population depends on free meals provided by food distribution centers operated by humanitarian organizations.
The region is witnessing an acute shortage of flour and an almost complete shutdown of bakeries.
With food stocks depleted, most free meal distribution centers—supported by the World Food Programme (WFP) and other relief organizations—have been forced to scale back their services.
No aid trucks have entered the Gaza Strip since 2 March.
Ahmad Al-Kafarna, a displaced person with disabilities from Beit Hanoun, said life has become nearly impossible.
He said, "We only eat one meal a day, and we put the children to bed early because there’s no food. There’s no clean drinking water, no medicine, and no hygiene supplies."
Sameer Abu Amsheh, a cancer patient, said he is surviving solely on rice: "Rice doesn’t satisfy hunger, and I’ve developed diarrhea from eating too much of it. We receive no aid, but we thank God we’re still alive."
In one of the displacement camps in central Gaza City, Mustafa Ghanem, displaced from Jabalia, said, "We only eat what the Takiya provides. Often, we skip dinner. There’s no medicine for chronic diseases. My wife suffered three strokes in fifty days due to the deteriorating conditions."
Despite these harsh realities, some women are trying to find simple means of survival.
Ibtihal Ghanem, who supports a family of 12, relies on a small clay oven to bake bread and sell it.
She said: "I make between 10 to 15 shekels a day. We live off whatever food the Takiya provides, and sometimes there’s nothing. We haven’t received any aid in a long time."
Umm Al-Abed Shatat said her family has no income. She said, "If there’s food at the Takiya, we eat. If not, we don’t. We move from one patch of shade to another to escape the heat in the tents and spend our days searching for water and food."
