NO USE CANADA, BELGIUM, ALGERIA, THE NETHERLANDS, SPAIN, SWITZERLAND

Mandatory credit: This is a journalistic collaboration of public service media who are Members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Their reporters filmed these stories on the ground in the Gaza Strip during the month of August. Contributing organizations include: CBC (Canada), RTBF (Belgium), EPTV (Algeria), NOS (The Netherlands), RTVE (Spain), RSI (Switzerland), and RTS (Switzerland)

Lower thirds:

00:30 Maryam Dawas | Gazan famine victim
00:54 Mudalla Imad Dawas | Maryam's mother
01:36 Ahmed Al-Batniji | Gazan famine victim
02:10 Sandra Rasheed | American Near East Refugee Aid
02:32 Report by Ralph Martin

This is Maryam in better days. Now the 9-year-old has been hospitalized in Gaza City for severe malnutrition. Her family has had to move several times since the war started - and may be displaced again if Israeli forces occupy the city.

The hospital can't offer food regularly  - and Maryam has trouble eating the pureed chicken and rice that is sometimes available.

:28 SOT Maryam Dawas (ARABIC):
 “I miss eating, I feel tired and hungry. I want to get better  I want to go back to how I was before ... I’m very sick. I was in first grade, I used to go to school and see my friends. I’m scared that the war continues and I die."

:52 SOT Mudalla Imad Dawas, Maryam’s mother (ARABIC): 
“I can’t describe my feelings, I don’t know what to tell you at any moment, I’ve prepared myself, at any moment to lose my daughter if I left the hospital.."

1:04   
Some markets are still open in Gaza - but mainly sell vegetables at sky-high prices. A kilo gram can cost 40 dollars or more. Most people look but can't buy.

1:17 
Famine has cut across Gazan society - Ahmed's father has a government job with the Palestinian authority. But the family has been displaced and Ahmed is now also severely malnourished. His mother says he was a happy, well-adjusted student before the war.

1:34  SOT AHMED  (ARABIC): 
"I feel sick, I have low proteins, there’s no protein in me, my feet are swollen. I wish we can go back to our lives before the war even for just one day. Right now life is hopeless.. It’s destroyed.”

1:53 
Sandra Rasheed runs the American Near East Refugee Aid organization's operations in Gaza. She says the NGO has millions of meals ready to go into Gaza - aid that has been held up at the border for months.

2:10 SOT Sandra Rasheed 
"I think there’s definitely a weaponization of humanitarian aid on the side of Israel. And they're using that as a negotiation chip to free the hostages, and the hostages need to be freed, nobody argues with that. But you don't use that against the population. That's collective punishment."

2:32
There's no end in sight for the hungry in Gaza - with Israel threatening to expand military operations and conditions constantly changing - for the worse.