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STORY: WHO / GAZA FOOD SECURITY ANALYSIS
TRT:6:15
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WHO ON SCREEN
LANGAUGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 08 AND 09 MAY 2025, GAZA
08 MAY 2025, TAL AL-ZAATAR, NORTH GAZA
1. Various shots, chaotic scenes of Gazans holding pots and pans waiting to receive food from the soup kitchen
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fadi Abu Siut, Soup Kitchen Worker:
“We are trying as much as possible to provide even a small amount of starches and legumes. So that we can feed as many as we can.”
3. Various shots, chaotic scenes of Gazans holding pots and pans waiting to receive food from the soup kitchen
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fadi Abu Siut, Soup Kitchen Worker:
“There is no cash in the country. People depend first and foremost on God and then on the food distribution. Everyone is dying of hunger.”
5. Med shot, empty soup kitchen pots
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fadi Abu Siut, Soup Kitchen Worker:
“What's happening… We're trying to lighten the load on people so we can distribute it to a large number of people. That means today, you might get, for example, approximately 5000 to 7000 people, and the other 5000 go home empty handed. Today, this amount isn't enough for everyone. Everyone is hungry and everyone needs food today.”
7. Med shot, young boy standing and waiting with an empty pan, holds head in his hands
8. SOUNDUP (Arabic)Man walking by:
“We are exhausted by the heat, we are tired, we are hungry.
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bothaina Abu Hamada, Displaced Person:
“We are tired, and hungry, support us with anything food, flour, material things, water.”
10. Med shot, young boy standing, holding an empty pan
11. Close up, empty plastic bowl
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bothaina Abu Hamada, Displaced Person:
“Everything, we have nothing, no medical supplies, no nutrition, kids are literally feeling dizzy due to lack of food in their system, they walk and fall walk and fall, they are hungry they want to eat.”
13. Med shot, people waiting to with pots and pans.
14. Close up, empty metal pan
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul Rahman Abu Al-Aish, Displaced Person:
“This is not even close to being enough, it’s not enough for anything. This food that you just gave me is for 10 people, my grandkids are 10, how’s this enough for them? Look here, how’s this even enough for 10 people.”
09 MAY 2025, AL-MAWASI, KHAN YOUNIS, SOUTH GAZA
16. Wide shot, displaced camp
17. Wide shot, Aida in a tent, preparing dough
18. Med shot, Aida in a tent, preparing dough
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aida Ahmed, Displaced person:
“The situation is extremely bad. At least before we had flour, now we have absolutely nothing; I am now going to use the last I have from the basic supplies, then we have nothing else; no flour or pasta or anything else to use. The situation is bad to the limit it’s reaching a famine. There’s nothing for us to buy.”
20. Close up, Aida’s hand kneading pasta into flour
21. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aida Ahmed, Displaced Person:
“Frankly I had no idea that it can be done, but people started saying that we should mix pasta with flour so it makes it a little better, due to the lack of flour in the country. Therefore, we started mixing pasta with flour so we can be able to provide, and feed our kids.”
22. Various shots, Aida’s preparing dough balls with one of her granddaughters.
23. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aida Ahmed, Displaced person:
“What’s the fault of a six-year-old, or a five-year-old in all of this? She (Aida’s daughter) has 3 children with no bread or basically anything to eat. What is the kid’s fault that he has nothing to eat? In fact, what’s his fault in all of the situation? being deprived of flour? To be honest, we are being deprived, this is a slow death for the children.”
24. Various shots, Aida cooking bread outside on a makeshift oven, using fabric as a heat source
25. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aida Ahmed, Displaced person:
“We originally used to use firewood for baking. But now firewood is expensive because. . . there is no firewood. Now we use nylon bags or we cut our clothes to start a fire to cook with. Because firewood is not available and at the same time expensive, and basically, we have no income so we can’t keep up with prices.”
26. Close up, dirty pots dishes on the floor
The entire 2.1 million population of Gaza is facing prolonged food shortages, with nearly half a million people in a catastrophic situation of hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death. This is one of the world’s worst hunger crises, unfolding in real time.
The latest food security analysis was released today (12 May) by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) partnership, of which WHO is a member. Today’s report shows that without immediate access to food and essential supplies, the situation will continue to deteriorate, causing more deaths and descent into famine.
As the conflict escalates, the aid blockade and shrinking humanitarian access continue to undermine WHO’s ability to support 16 outpatient and three inpatient nutrition centres with life-saving supplies, and to sustain the broader health system. The remaining supplies in WHO’s stocks inside Gaza are only enough to treat 500 children with acute malnutrition — a fraction of the urgent need — while essential medicines and supplies to treat diseases and trauma injuries are already running out cannot be replenished due to the blockade.
