Desperate families scramble for food in across embattled territory

(3 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip - 03 May 2025
1. Various of displaced people carrying empty pots, begging charity for food
2. Various of workers filling displaced people's pots with lentils
3. Various of boys carrying empty pots waiting to receive food
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hani Abu Al-Qasim, owner of Rafah charity:
"As you can see, this picture is now after the distribution. These families after the distribution is finished. We have finished our work. These families are waiting. More than 200 families are unable to feed their children, so they will return to their homes without receiving food. Many of them said that for more than three days, nothing has entered their stomachs or their children’s stomachs. The famine that is ravaging the Gaza Strip today is not just a threat, but has become a reality that we are living."

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beit Lahiya, Northern Gaza Strip - 03 May 2025
5. Various of charity workers cooking pasta in large pots as displaced people wait
6. Various of displaced people carrying empty pots
7. Various of workers filling pots of displaced people with cooked pasta
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Faten Al-Sabbagh, displaced from Beit Lahiya:
"We are 8 people, I need to provide them with a bite of food, I wish I can find even bread, but there is nothing and we are unable to. The prices are high and there are no salaries."
9. Various of boy scraping remains of pasta from bottom of pot
STORYLINE:
Clutching pots and buckets, desperate families pushed and shoved at food distribution sites to reach steaming vats of soup in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza and Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza.

Israel has renewed an aid blockade into Gaza, with the strip not receiving food, medication, or other assistance since March 2.

The UN World Food Program said its food stockpiles have run out, while aid groups say thousands of Palestinian children are malnourished due to the embargo.

Israel says the blockade is to pressure Hamas to release the remaining hostages.

More than 200 families are still waiting, said Hani Abu Al-Kassem, the founder of Rafah charity, moments after he and fellow volunteers distributed the last of their food.

“They will return home without receiving food. Many of them said that nothing has entered their stomachs or their children’s stomachs for more than three days.”

“The famine that is ravaging the Gaza Strip today is not just a threat, but has become a reality that we are living,” Kassem added.

Faten Al-Sabbagh waited at the food distribution site in Beit Lahiya, but the supplies ran out before she could get anything for her eight-member family.

“I need to provide them with a bite of food, I wish I can find even bread, but there is nothing,” she told the Associated Press.

“The prices are high and there are no salaries.”

AP production by Wafaa Shurafa

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