Palestinians queue for water as scarcity continues across the Gaza Strip

(17 Apr 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 16 April 2025
1. Various of people standing near empty containers
2. Various of people holding containers to fill them with water
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Aziz Younis, displaced resident from Gaza city:
"Well, water is very scarce here. We rarely get water here. We live near the university, so we come here running to fill up a gallon or two of water. One truck comes for the entire university (for displaced people who live in university), the water is very scarce."
4. Various of people filling their containers with water
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nevin al-Dahloul, displaced resident from Beit Lahiya:
"Water, is the simplest thing. We're not asking for luxury. Our most basic rights are food, drink, water, and treatment. The simplest rights of any civilian, any people, any person in the world. What we've lived through is enough. How long will the situation continue like this? How long? We're exhausted. By God, we're exhausted and our children are exhausted. And we're even more exhausted for our children. There is no education, no life, no treatment, no food, no drink."
6. Various of people filling their containers with water

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Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip - 16 April 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Omar Shatat, Deputy Director of the Coastal Water Utility:
"We have a severe water shortage. We are talking about 6 to 7 liters of potable water supplied to (each) citizen in the Gaza Strip. We are experiencing a water catastrophe. This is not a normal situation at all. And this is of course reflected on the general health situation in the Gaza Strip."

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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - 16 April 2025
8. Various of people filling their containers with water
9. Various of people carrying their containers and leaving

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Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip - 16 April 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Omar Shatat, Deputy Director of the Coastal Water Utility:
"The health situation as a whole is very bad, and this is due to the quality of the water and also to the process or the way in which citizens and displaced people have to deal with transporting the water itself. This is a difficult situation, it is not just about the water alone."

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Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip - 16 April 2025
11. Various of people gathering to fill their containers with water
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hanaa Wadi, resident from Jabaliya:
"The whole situation is difficult, from every aspect: flour, water, gas and everything else. It's difficult for everyone, not just one person. People are suffering and dying slowly. What have we done wrong in this life that we live? What is our fault in all that's happening?"
13. Children carrying empty containers
14. Boy carrying containers filled with water and leaving
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hanaa Wadi, resident from Jabaliya:
"This is the life that we ​​have in Gaza, waking up to run after water and wood. This is the life that we live. As for studying or education, there is none of that. The life of a child like this one and this one is to just grab a container and run after a water truck."
16. Various of people gathering to get water
STORYLINE:
Palestinians in the Gaza cities of Khan Younis and Jabaliya lined up in front of a water truck Wednesday, clutching containers and jerrycans, hoping to fill them with whatever water is available amid ongoing severe water scarcity across the territory.







Most of Gaza’s population access food through aid supplies and charity kitchens.






Production by Wafaa Shurafa



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