(21 Dec 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rafah, Gaza Strip - 21 December 2023
1. Various of food being distributed at soup kitchen
2. Various of food being prepared and people waiting
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aya Barbakh, displaced Palestinian resident:
"I come here everyday to take food and go back. I don't want them to supply us with food only for four or five days, we want it everyday. We want to rest just like other people. We see people dying everyday and we want to die like them. We have been insulted and humiliated. We don’t want this, we want to have (normal meals) for life. When I go back, I won't find my house."
4. Food being prepared
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khalid Sheikh el-Eid, soup kitchen:
"This charity has 30 tubs of food that is supposed to provide for five shelters. We offer free food to our displaced brothers. There are no cooking materials, we cook on burning wood because there is no fuel or any other basics. We struggle to make food and offer it to our displaced people."
6. Various of food being distributed
7. Food being prepared
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmoud al-Qishawi, Pious Projects spokesman:
"We are preparing hundreds of soups and hot meals for the displaced families who have evacuated their homes from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south here. All of these people live under challenging circumstances, they are under deprivations. Actually, we have many problems, even if we provide food, but we have many problems, we have no access to gas. So we go to streets to gather wood to burn the fire and cook the food, and also a huge number of families and we don't have food that is enough for them."
9. Various of children eating
STORYLINE:
One food kitchen is feeding hundreds of residents in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah as fighting between Israel and Hamas rages on in the territory.
The kitchen has been operating as most of the enclave's population remains boxed into the southern half of Gaza.
Displaced Palestinian resident Aya Barbakh is one of many who return to the food point on a daily basis.
"I don't want them to supply us with food only for four or five days, we want it everyday," she says.
"We want to rest just like other people," she adds.
With limited border crossings open into Gaza and trickles of aid reaching the besieged territory, a lack of food is becoming a huge problem.
The United Nations said on Tuesday that half of Gaza’s population is in a situation of extreme or severe hunger, and 90% regularly goes without food for a whole day.
Only 10% of the food required for the territory's 2.2 million people has entered Gaza in the last 70 days, the U.N. said.
Nearly 20,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel declared war on Hamas, according to the Health Ministry in Gaza, which does not differentiate between civilian and combatant deaths.
Israel says more than 130 of its soldiers have died in its ground offensive after Hamas raided southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing about 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and taking about 240 hostages.
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