(9 Jun 2025)
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Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip – 9 June 2025
1. Various of hundreds people walking back after receiving aid
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Abu Lebda, displaced from Rafah:
"We ran like everyone else, and we went inside, and instead of the Americans giving us aid, they sprayed us with pepper gas. My face was red like fire. And they beat me and carried me and threw me outside. This is not a proper treatment, this is called mistreatment. Are they bringing us aid? No, they are not bringing us aid, you are humiliating us and degrading us for a box of aid, why?"
3. Various of hundreds people walking back after they received aid
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salim Al-Rabaia, displaced from Rafah:
"Shooting and death. If you don’t drop to the ground you die, everyone dies. There are people who received (aid) and people who didn’t. (Reporter asking: did you see people who got killed or injuries?) There were injuries, many injuries and there were martyrs, there were martyrs at the Al-Alam area."
5. Various of people carrying bags of aid supplies and walking back
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim Al-Ghon, displaced from Rafah:
"We receive our food with the taste of blood. Our situation is difficult, below zero. We have endured a lot, but we are hungry. We are under zero now (worse than nothing)."
7. Various of hundreds of people carrying bags of aid supplies and walking back
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Said Abu Zeid, displaced from Rafah:
"We came here only to face suffering, death, killing, there were tanks, shootings, all of this just so we can get our livelihood. We ask the Arab countries to find a solution for us. Enough! This wrong, what is happening is wrong. Seriously, what is happening is wrong. Find a solution for us."
9. Various of hundreds of people walking back after aid distribution point was closed
STORYLINE:
Palestinians say Israeli forces and allied local gunmen fired toward a crowd heading to an Israeli- and U.S.-supported food distribution center in the Gaza Strip early Monday.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said six people were killed.
The gunmen appeared to be allied with the Israeli military, operating in close proximity to troops and retreating into an Israeli military zone in the southern city of Rafah after the crowd hurled stones at them, witnesses said.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Israel recently acknowledged supporting local armed groups opposed to Hamas.
It was the latest in a number of shootings that have killed at least 127 people and wounded hundreds since the rollout of a new food distribution system, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Israel and the United States say the new system is designed to circumvent Hamas, but it has been rejected by the U.N. and major aid groups.
Experts have meanwhile warned that Israel’s blockade and its ongoing military campaign have put Gaza at risk of famine.
Palestinians say Israeli forces have repeatedly fired toward crowds heading to the food centers since they opened last month.
In previous instances, the Israeli military has said it fired warning shots at people who approached its forces near the centers, which are in military zones off limits to independent media.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the Israeli and U.S.-supported private contractor running the sites, says there has been no violence in or around the centers themselves.
But GHF repeatedly warns would-be food recipients that stepping off the road designated by the military for people to reach the centers represents “a great danger.”
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