(3 Dec 2024)
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Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip - 21 November 2024
1. Various of hundreds of women gathering outside bakeries, fighting to buy bread
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Cairo, Egypt - 2 December 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Carl Skau, World Food Program's deputy executive director: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 3++
"We have reached a new level when it comes to the breakdown of civil and public order, and we are being looted across the southern Strip. In the north of course, the problem is the ongoing military operation which is hampering our access. And so, you know, this month in November, we were able to only reach one third of the people that we usually reach. This is not enough because we stand before a winter and the level of desperation is going up, you know. Our bakeries are running out of wheat flour. In the north, the bakeries don't have enough fuel and we do not have enough food to hand out to the people living under desperate conditions in these shelters."
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Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip - 21 November 2024
3. Various of people gathering to buy bread
STORYLINE:
The World Food Program's deputy executive director warned on Monday that alarm was mounting in Gaza over increasing hunger in the enclave.
"We have reached a new level when it comes to the breakdown of civil and public order," Carl Skau, warned as he stressed the World Food Program was only able to deliver aid to some 300,000 to 400,000 Palestinians in November across the Strip.
"We are being looted across the southern Strip. In the north of course, the problem is the ongoing military operation which is hampering our access... in November we were able to only reach one third of the people that we usually reach," he said.
The amount of food allowed in by Israel has plunged over the past two months, compounded by a decision Sunday by the United Nations to halt aid deliveries from the main crossing into the territory because of the threat of armed gangs looting convoys.
Experts have already warned of famine in the northernmost part of Gaza, which Israeli forces have almost completely isolated since early October, saying they're fighting regrouped Hamas militants there.
Israel’s campaign in Gaza, triggered by Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel, has driven almost the entire population of the territory from their homes.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians now live in squalid tent camps, relying on international aid.
The Israeli military said it allowed 40 trucks carrying 600 tons of flour for the World Food Program to enter the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday night, as well as 16 other food trucks.
Israel has said it is working to increase the flow of aid.
November saw an increase in the average number of humanitarian trucks it let into Gaza, up to 77 daily from 57 the month before, according to official Israeli figures.
But the levels are still nearly the lowest of the entire 15-month war.
And the U.N. says less than half of that actually reaches Palestinians because Israeli military restrictions, fighting and robberies make it too dangerous to deliver.
With the price of flour mounting because of scarcity, the bakers — women displaced from further north — said they could bake less bread, and families could afford far less.
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