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STORY: GAZA / HUNGER MALNUTRITION
TRT: 09:40
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGAUGES: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 20 JULY 2025, GAZA CITY
1. Various shots, markets with scarce vendors and sparse goods
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nour Sobh, displaced person from Beit Lahia:
“Since this morning I’ve been looking for a kilo of flour and haven’t found any in Gaza City. Famine has devoured our children—they go to sleep without food. I went out this morning searching for bread, and my wife is now lying in the hospital. I’ve been searching for food for hours and found nothing. Prices are beyond our means: a kilo of flour has reached about 200 shekels, and we have no income. What we suffer most today is hunger, and our children are sleeping hungry.”
3. Various shots, markets with scarce vendors and sparse goods
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim Abu N’meh, Palestinian:
“We are living through extreme famine. I left the house to bring back food and found nothing. I can’t afford the eggplant, which now costs 30 shekels, nor the flour at around 160 shekels per kilo. I need one kilo of flour every day just for my children to eat bread. What do I have today? What will I have tomorrow? I have nothing, and I can’t buy anything with the little money I have.”
5. Various shots, markets with scarce vendors and sparse goods
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bassam Dawood, Palestinian:
“I came to the market and found neither food nor drink. We call on the world to pressure Israel to allow aid in. The closure of crossings is the reason we suffer from hunger. We have children and elderly people. We, as men, can endure, but the children cannot. We appeal to the whole world to save our children so they can grow up healthy.”
7. Various shots, streets
8. Various shots, Rantisi Children’s Hospital, Al-Nasr neighborhood
9. Various shots, reception area, Rantisi Children’s Hospital
10. Various shots, Dr. Ragheb Warshagha examining several malnourished children
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Ragheb Warshagha, Head, Gastroenterology Department, Rantisi Specialized Children’s Hospital:
“Critical cases are now arriving at Rantisi Hospital that require admission and proper treatment. The problem is that mothers themselves suffer from malnutrition and lack of milk, which leads to child malnutrition—especially in weight. This, in turn, causes severe infections and, sometimes, death due to weakened immunity from poor nutrition.”
12. Various shots, Sham Maqattah suffering from severe malnutrition, Rantisi Specialized Children’s Hospital
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sham Maqattah’s mother, Palestinian:
“As you can see, there is no milk, and I don’t have the nutrition to breastfeed her naturally. Her health has deteriorated, and I have been visiting the hospital for some time because of her condition. We hope that milk and diapers for children will be allowed in, and that crossings will open to bring in food. As mothers, we watch our children suffer, and it pains us.”
14. Various shots, dozens of families with their children being treated for malnutrition and hunger
15. Various shots, child Hussam Al-Turamsi with his mother during a medical examination for malnutrition
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hussam Al-Turamsi’s mother, Palestinian:
“Because of the current situation, there is no milk, no food, no water. This is famine. I cannot meet my child’s needs. We were admitted on Friday, and since then my son has been surviving on IV fluids and is unable to walk.”
17. Various shots, families with their children as they wait for treatment, hospital
18. Various shots, family whose twin children suffer from malnutrition
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) twins’ father, Palestinian:
“My two children are suffering from severe malnutrition. We can’t find milk for them, and we don’t know what to do.”
20. Various shots, families and children lined up to receive a meal from free community kitchen, IDP camp
21. Various shots, people holding empty containers, struggling to obtain food
22. Various shots, Palestinian woman gathering scraps of food from ground after community kitchen closed and supplies ran out
23. UPSOUND (Arabic) Palestinian woman:
"Is this even edible? Is it? I picked it up from the ground—to feed my children! People, is this edible? Have mercy on us, have mercy on our children. Look at us—have compassion!"
24. Various shots, children queuing in front of community kitchen after it had closed and food supplies were exhausted
Famine threatens people across Gaza as violence intensifies, border crossings remain closed, and food is dangerously scarce.
Local hospitals report a sharp rise in malnutrition cases—particularly among infants—amid acute shortages of food and medicine.
In Gaza City, markets appear empty of essential goods, and the few available items are being sold at steep prices.
Local resident Ibrahim Abu N’meh said, “We are living through extreme famine. I left the house to get food and found nothing.”
Nor Sobh, displaced from Beit Lahia, said: “Since morning I’ve been looking for a kilo of flour and can’t find any. Famine has consumed our children. My wife is now in the hospital, and I’ve been searching for food for hours without success.”
At the specialized Rantisi Children’s Hospital, doctors report an increase in severe malnutrition cases, especially among infants, due to an acute lack of milk and essential nutrients.
Dr. Ragheb Warshagha said, “We are now admitting critical cases. Mothers themselves suffer from malnutrition, which leads to insufficient breast milk and child malnutrition—sometimes fatal due to weakened immunity.”
A mother whose daughter, Sham Maqattah, is hospitalized, said “There’s no milk, and I can’t breastfeed naturally. Her health is deteriorating. We hope for the delivery of baby food and diapers. We watch our children die with nothing to give them.”
Footage from the hospital shows dozens of families arriving with emaciated, malnourished children, amid warnings of further health declines.
Health officials in Gaza say medical facilities are experiencing a severe drop in operational capacity, facing shortages of both staff and essential medications.
In displacement camps across the territory, thousands of civilians live in makeshift tents under high temperatures, with a critical lack of drinking water and food.
Families rely on a handful of community kitchens that provide a single daily meal—usually lentils.
At one aid distribution point, a Palestinian woman cried out, holding scraps of food: "Is this even edible? Is it? I picked it up from the ground—to feed my children! People, is this edible? Have mercy on us, have mercy on our children. Look at us—have compassion!"
