Gaza residents shop at market as resources run low

(4 Nov 2023)
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Khan Younis, Gaza - 4 November 2023
1. Various of market
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Halima Toman, vendor:
"Patients and injured people come here to shop and also the displaced people from the schools, so they shop here. I can tell you that some goods are running out now, there is nothing more, so the minute your goods are sold, you stop working."
3. Various of market
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Falah Awad, vendor:
"Then the airstrikes started, I took a bus, my children and I ran away from Qararah and went to Nasser hospital and the schools (the UN shelters), when I saw people here, so I put my stall up as people had left their homes without their clothes, without their blankets, they had come with nothing, the hospital is full of people, the UNRWA schools are full, and there is also very little money so it's very hard for them (the displaced) to live."
5. Various of market scene
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ismail Shnino, displaced person:
"I'm living at a displaced school here, close to the hospital and the mosque, and of course it's close to the market. I came here to buy some vegetables to cook something simple for the children to have lunch, thank God I have a little money, so I could buy half a kilogram of tomatoes, half a kilogram of cucumber, I buy daily what I need, and God knows if i will continue or not as we might face shelling at any moment."
7. Various of market, street
STORYLINE:
Gaza residents shopped for basic goods on Saturday at a market in the southern city of Khan Younis as shortages were becoming a problem in the besieged territory amid the war between Israel and Hamas.

Vendor Halima Toman said some goods were running out and once things were sold she would close up her stall.

A rising number of bakeries had already stopped operating due to the fuel and water shortages as well as airstrike damage.

The World Food Programme had warned that widespread food insecurity across Gaza was quickly becoming a serious crisis.

Residents and officials have also complained that there wasn't enough food coming through the Rafah border crossing from Egypt, while much of it had already expired or would expire before it could reach people in need.

The Palestinian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war has reached 9,448, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza.

In the occupied West Bank, more than 140 Palestinians have been killed in violence and Israeli raids.

The UNRWA says 72 of its staff members have been killed.

More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, most of them in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that started the fighting, and 242 hostages were taken from Israel into Gaza by the militant group.

Roughly 1,100 people have left the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing since Wednesday under an apparent agreement among the United States, Egypt, Israel and Qatar, which mediates with Hamas.

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