Displaced residents relocate to Gaza City and live in tents among piles of rubbish and rubble

(3 Dec 2024)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 2 December 2024
1. Various of man setting up tent
2. Various of tents, rubble and destroyed buildings nearby
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bilal Marouf, displaced from north of Gaza Strip:
"We went out barefoot and naked. We and our children had nothing with us. I swear we had nothing. Hunger and thirst killed us, and we did not have a single shekel, clothes, mattress, or blanket. We came as you see here. We were surrounded by rubbish. There is no water, we stay now in the streets."
4. Various of woman sitting with her children outside tent
5. Various of displaced people cooking food outdoors on makeshift stoves
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Imad Abu Jedian, displaced from Jabaliya:
"We live in tents in very, very difficult conditions, garbage, crowding, mosquitoes. We clean the garbage, no one cares about us, we are near the main street, and dust and bombs all fall on people and children."
7. Various of displaced people gathering near tents, people setting up tents amongst rubble
8. Wide of tents near garbage and rubble
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Imad Abu Jedian, displaced from Jabaliya:
"Here are our children, playing in the garbage. They have no playgrounds, were deprived of schools, and their homes were destroyed. And here we live in a camp in a garbage dump."
10. Various of displaced woman hanging clothes to dry on ropes between tents near garbage piles
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Imad Abu Jedian, displaced from Jabaliya:
"We want a truce today, before tomorrow. Have mercy on us. Our children are dying. They are dying from the garbage, from the Jews, from the remnants of the occupation. We do not know what to do. We are unable to find what to eat or what to drink. From yesterday until now, our children have not eaten."
12. Various tracking shots of displaced people sitting and walking near their tents
STORYLINE:
Facing acute shortages of food and water and lacking security, displaced Palestinians from northern Gaza have relocated to Gaza City and are now living in tents among piles of rubbish and rubble.

"We went out barefoot and naked. We and our children had nothing with us. I swear we had nothing. Hunger and thirst killed us, and we did not have a single shekel, nor clothes, nor a mattress, nor a blanket. We came as you see here. We were surrounded by rubbish. There is no water, we stay now in the streets,” said Bilal Marouf, a 55-year-old displaced man from the north with 11 family members.

Near Marouf’s tent, sits piles of trash, waste, rubble, and overcrowded areas filled with tents lined up along a main street, where other displaced families are staying with barely any life necessities for cooking and cleaning.

"We live in tents in very difficult conditions with garbage, crowding, mosquitoes, we try to clean off the garbage around our tents, no one cares about us, we are near the main street, and dust and bombing all fall on people and children,” said Imad Abu Jedian, a displaced man from Jabaliya.

Jedian, who lost two of his sons and two brothers during the war, said that he couldn’t go to schools-turned-shelters because they are filled with thousands of people. He added that the charitable kitchen where he is staying is only able to serve some 500 people out of the thousands of displaced Palestinians in the area.


With a potential ceasefire deal in Gaza still nowhere in sight, aid agencies are struggling to operate amid ongoing Israeli offensives and looting of convoys.


Production by Wafaa Shurafa

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