About 60 trucks with emergency aid arrive in Gaza daily, but it is far from enough. – It is a drop in the ocean, says Adnan Abu Hasna to news. He is a press spokesman for the UN refugee agency, UNRWA. – We are now talking about real starvation in the Gaza Strip, says Hasna, who is being interviewed by news’s team in Gaza. He says that several tens of thousands of starving people walk the streets begging for food. Volunteers prepare soup for the refugees. Photo: Jebril Abu Kmeil / news – Just want to eat Volunteers cook soup from beans, rice and carrots, and distribute it to starving refugees. One of the women in the queue holds out a saucepan of thin, light soup, which she has been given. – We are a large family of 20 people and we get this every day, says Um Iad Bakir. Um Iad Bakir says that no one in her family of twenty people has a job. They have no money to buy food for, if they were to find someone to sell. Photo: Jebril Abu Kmeil / news She says that they live in a school that has been turned into a camp for refugees. – Had it not been for this, we would have starved, she says. Everyone in the family is unemployed. They have no money to buy food with. – When I come to the rest of the family with this pot, they just want to eat. They will be very happy about it, she says. The refugees in Gaza stand in line to get food. Photo: Jebril Abu Kmeil / news Makeshift camps Around 2 million Palestinians are refugees in Gaza. One and a half million of them live in makeshift camps set up by the UN. – There is a disaster unfolding in Gaza, and because we don’t have room for everyone, people are sleeping on the streets or in their cars, says Hasna. Mohammed Al Qadrah is a refugee and volunteer cook. He helps to distribute the emergency aid that comes to Gaza. Photo: Mohammed Al Qadrah / news He says that they are now really afraid that the disease cholera will spread among the refugees. – With each passing day the situation gets worse, says Secretary General of Red Cross Norway, Anne Bergh, in a press release. She writes that it is extremely demanding to maintain a health service. – Medicines and emergency aid are used up at a much faster pace than new supplies come in, writes Bergh. Children bring empty tins with them to put food in. Photo: Jebril Abu Kmeil / news Handing out The children bring vessels and empty tins in which they get hot soup. – Everything I get in, I prepare and distribute to people, says Muhammed Al Qudra. He is also a refugee, but now spends his days as a volunteer cook in Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip. Several hundred starving people are queuing and waiting from early in the morning. When the day is over, Al Qudra also gets a team. – I get a bowl of food, like everyone else. After work, I take it home to my family and children. – It’s a drop in the ocean, says Adnan Abu Hasna from UNWRA, about the emergency aid coming into Gaza. Photo: Jebril Abu Kmeil / news
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