Food Under Siege in Gaza

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Sheila Dillon looks at what the current conflict in Gaza has done to food supplies in one of the most densely populated places on earth. After Hamas gunmen launched an unprecedented assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, killing 1,200 people and taking about 240 hostages, the Government of Israel responded with air strikes on Gaza, and launched a ground offensive. To date, more than 14,800 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run government. Hundreds of thousands of others have been displaced to the south of the territory, where vast numbers are living in make-shift camps. Aid agencies say hunger is spreading, as shops have been emptied of food, and a lack of fuel is restricting how much food can be distributed around.

In this programme, recorded while the situation in Gaza is still changing on a daily basis, Sheila Dillon seeks to find out how people are feeding themselves and their families, how resilient the population is given the uncertainties they face, and what long abandoned food ways can they fall back on as supplies run low.

Presented by Sheila Dillon Produced in Bristol for BBC Audio by Natalie Donovan

Transcript

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0:46.2	a lot. I'm Sheila Dylan and I hope you'll give us a listen. This was a surprise attack on Israel by the militant Palestinian group Hamas.
0:59.0	It's claiming it's launched 5,000 rockets in just 20 minutes.
1:04.7	Dozens of Israeli soldiers and civilians are being held hostage as part of an unprecedented
1:09.1	attack by Palestinian militants on Israeli territory.
1:12.0	The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made a speech this evening
1:16.0	vowing to take mighty vengeance on Palestinian militants for what he called a black day.
1:22.0	Those horrors inflicted by Hamas in Israel on October the 7th marked a new phase of confrontation in the Gaza Strip.
1:30.0	1,200 people were killed and around 240 taken hostage.
1:35.0	Thousands have since been killed in Gaza when Israel launched intense military action.
1:41.0	In this program, we want to find out how a population of 2.2 million people in Gaza,
1:46.0	nearly half of them under 18, are surviving day by day.
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