The Struggle to Get Aid to Gaza

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Dispensing aid in the Gaza Strip is becoming increasingly difficult. No one knows this better than Hani. On a professional level, his employer, UNRWA—the main supplier of food, water, and shelter to Gazans over the last year—is banned from operating come 2025. On a personal note, his brother Mahmoud was killed in what Hani believes to have been a targeted strike while operating a soup kitchen for hungry neighbors. Guest: Hani Almadhoun, senior director of philanthropy at UNRWA USA. Want more What Next? Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to What Next and all your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the What Next show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.9	Henny, you grow up in northern Gaza, right?
0:40.3	Yes, correct.
0:41.3	That's the area where I spent my early years.
0:46.3	How would you describe your hometown?
0:48.3	What's the image in your mind that you have of it?
0:53.3	It's a ruler area, a lot of farms, a lot of people with nice trees in their homes.
1:00.3	It's more spacious than Jabalia camp, which wasn't too far, where the refugees are sheltering.
1:07.6	This is Hennie Almad Houn. He grew up in the Gaza Strip in the northern city of Bait Lahia.
1:14.1	It's known as the breadbasket of Gaza, or was.
1:17.4	Henny says the landscape is usually green, the people very close.
1:22.3	If there is a funeral, people show up with food.
1:24.8	If there is a wedding, people show up ready to dance and celebrate.
1:29.4	So it's a very small town where everybody knows everybody and it feels like everyone is a neighbor.
1:35.8	And that's the values we grew up with in North Gaza.
1:39.8	What does Bait Lahia actually look like on the ground today?
1:45.3	It is, you would not recognize it.
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