‘This aid is stained with humiliation and blood’: Gaza aid seeker
Thousands of Palestinians crowded against aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip through the southern Morag Corridor on Monday, attempting to get whatever food they could amid an Israeli-engineered starvation crisis.
Mohammed Qassas from Khan Younis in southern Gaza said his children are so hungry that he is forced to storm aid trucks.
“I have young children, how am I supposed to feed them? No one has mercy. This resembles the end of the world,” he said. “If we fight, we get the food. If we don’t fight, we don’t get anything,” he told AP.
As the trucks drove away, men climbed onto them, scrambling for any remaining scraps.
“Some people go home with some 200 kilogrammes (441 pounds), and others go home with only one kilogramme (35 ounces). It is a mafia-like system,” Qassas said.
Yusif Abu Mor from Khan Younis said the trucks’ aid system is akin to a death trap.
“This aid is stained with humiliation and blood,” he told the news agency, adding that aid seekers run the risk of being killed by shootings or run over by aid trucks surrounded by crowds of hungry Palestinians.
Palestinians struggle to get food and humanitarian aid from the back of a truck as it moves along the Morag Corridor near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip
Endless cycle of violent attacks against Palestinians at GHF aid points
The same exact scenario plays out in Gaza every single day since the notorious GHF distribution sites opened in late May. Palestinians are approaching these distribution sites, waiting for food, but the Israeli forces are opening fire.
According to sources at al-Shifa Hospital, the number of injuries that have been transferred from the distribution point in the Zikim area is very large. Injuries are coming with bullets in parts of their bodies that are very hard to treat, including their heads, necks and also their chests.
The cycle of violence is the same in all three distribution locations, where lethal force is being used against Palestinians seeking aid. And again, the only reason Palestinians are going to these distribution points is because it’s the only source right now across the devastated Gaza Strip to get any food.
These Palestinian aid seekers are waiting to feed their families, their children and also feed themselves.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health and the Gaza Government Media Office describe these distribution points as “death traps” where Palestinians are going to get food but many are either getting killed or wounded or return empty-handed
Israeli attack kills 15 aid seekers in northern Gaza
At least 15 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded by Israeli fire on aid seekers in northern Gaza.
At least 74 people, including 51 aid seekers, have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn.
Since the GHF established aid sites at the end of May, at least 1,568 people have been killed while attempting to receive life-saving food aid amid the Israeli-engineered starvation crisis.
‘They targeted children’: Khan Younis woman recounts deadly Israeli strike
Khadija al-Rekeb, a Khan Younis resident, has described the aftermath of an Israeli strike that killed at least five Palestinians, including an 11-year-old.
“Those killed here were from one family,” she said. “There were also injuries – so many injured children and women. We didn’t hear anything other than the sound of the blast. That is it. And the shrapnel flew around us. They targeted children – they have nothing to do with it.”
The strike hit a group of tents sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza, where residents could be seen sifting through the rubble for belongings.
At least 52 Palestinians have been killed across the Gaza Strip so far today, according to hospital sources. Among the dead are 28 people who were seeking aid.
Six people were killed and nine wounded near an aid distribution point on Salah al-Din Street south of the Wadi Gaza area after Israeli forces targeted a gathering of civilians, according to al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat.
Despite international calls for increased humanitarian access, Israeli bombardment continues across the enclave.
