Gaza - Displacement and malnutrition - 17 April 2025

Description
STORY: OCHA / GAZA DISPLACED MALNUTRITION
TRT: 5:05
SOURCE: OCHA
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LANGUAGE: ARABIC / ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 14 AND 15 APRIL 2025, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA

Shotlist
14 APRIL 2025, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA

1. Various shots,  makeshift encampment in Khan Younis
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Misna, Displaced Mother:
“Our kids wet their beds at night out of fear. We've suffered a great deal. Our life isn't stable. We want peace. We want safety for our kids.”
3. Moving shot, through tents
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Misna, Displaced Mother:
“I say, most importantly, they'd open the crossings for us. A message to the whole world: open the crossings for us. Show mercy to our kids. It's a catastrophe. What's happening to us is a catastrophe. No food. Massacres day in, day out. We sleep while afraid. Even my son is afraid to use the toilet. It’s unacceptable. Have mercy on us. Our kids have suffered a lot. We want the crossings to be opened, healthy food, life... clean water, healthy food. We're in great suffering. Our suffering is so difficult.”
5. Wide shot, Safa, with her two children, in their tent.
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Safa, Displaced Mother:
“I swear to God, mice and insects attack us while we're asleep. It's not safe for our kids to sleep in tents. We've been treated poorly. We've had enough of humiliation. What's our kids' fault to be treated so badly?”
7. Wide shot, Safa and her child going through medications
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Safa, Displaced Mother:
“Now and then, I take my kids to hospital for treatment due to stomach flu and canned food. Our food is contaminated. It's full of germs and bacteria. They got skin rash transmitted from one person to another. We're affected by all types of bacteria. My little son asks me when we'll have a house and settle. We've had enough of tents. By God, my son asks me this: How long will we stay in tents?”
9. Moving shot, a girl walking past tents
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Olga Cherevko, OCHA Gaza:
“Every day, more and more people are coming from the displacement order areas, from which they're told to leave. Many of them are coming with no belongings. Even today, we were told some more are arriving and they'll be living with their relatives if they're lucky. If not, they will have to set up tents or shelter as much as they can, from blankets, from sheets, from whatever they have.”

15 APRIL 2025, KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA

11. Various shots of the Ard El Insan Palestinian Association malnutrition centre, funded by the occupied Palestinian territory Humanitarian Fund.
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Olga Cherevko, OCHA Gaza:
“Since no food has entered for over six weeks into Gaza, we are being told by our partners who screen malnutrition that these cases are going up. This center here, who is seeing about 50 to 60 women that come in with their children every day, [has] as many as 20% more cases are being screened now, for various levels of malnutrition. We are, of course, responding by providing supplements and referring severe cases to hospitals for additional treatment. But this is not enough. What needs to be done is addressing the root causes of this issue, which is improving people's living conditions and improving people's access to proper nutritious food.”
13. various shots, Ard El Insan Palestinian Association malnutrition centre, funded by the occupied Palestinian territory Humanitarian Fund

Storyline
Following new displacement orders by the Israeli authorities, some 420,000 people have been newly displaced or uprooted once more. The conditions are increasingly dire, especially for children.

“I swear to God, mice and insects attack us while we're asleep” said Safa, a displaced mother in Khan Younis. Misna, another mother, says her children “wet the bed at night out of fear.”

Humanitarian partners have also witnessed soaring malnutrition levels among children since the Israeli forces’ closure of the crossings on March 2nd. A general improvement can only happen through “the reopening of the crossings and our ability to deliver assistance to the people whose needs are growing immensely” said OCHA’s Olga Cherevko.