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00:00 Scores of Gazans stood in line to get boxes of aid in the central city of Pir al-Balah
00:12 in the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
00:18 They need to wait in days after they registered their names to get food months ago.
00:27 I came suddenly.
00:31 I registered my name two months ago.
00:33 I came suddenly, I looked at the names and I found my name.
00:36 I was happy when I found my name and I took the box.
00:42 Large numbers of food parcels were handed over to displaced Palestinians who queued
00:47 up outside Umrah school that now houses the offices of charity.
00:52 It is very difficult for me to save my daily expenses.
00:59 The prices are very high.
01:01 If you go to buy, the prices are very high.
01:04 It is not like 2% or 10% or 300%.
01:10 What is this?
01:11 We can buy anything.
01:14 I can't buy for my children.
01:16 I have 5 boxes of dates.
01:19 I need 27 boxes of dates every day.
01:22 I can't buy for my children.
01:26 I can't buy for my children.
01:28 The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip now is as catastrophic as ever.
01:36 The northern part of the coastal region has been struck with severe shortage of food,
01:41 with famines said to be imminent in the hard-hit north.
01:46 Aid has struggled to reach the area because of the fighting, forcing many displaced Palestinians
01:52 to the south of Gaza.
01:54 We have no stable income.
02:00 None of my children are employed.
02:02 My husband is not employed.
02:04 They are all workers.
02:06 And since we are in the south, we have no financial income.
02:10 We provide simple things for the children.
02:14 We give them juice, biscuits.
02:21 If they see a can of juice, they will be happy.
02:26 They are deprived of that, of course.
02:28 We can't provide for them.
02:30 Food has been scarce in the Strip since Israel's offensive that has caused widespread devastation
02:39 and killed over 33,800 people.
02:43 We can't provide for them.
02:46 We can't provide for them.
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