(30 Jul 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 30 July 2025
1. Various of people carrying bags of flour
2. Trucks driving by carrying people
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) No name given, displaced Palestinian:
“We need people to protect us, people to give us and people to provide us with food. It doesn’t work like that, it’s humiliation. Look at this, it’s a 50-kilo bag. I fell 10 times while carrying it, 10 times instead of going and getting it from UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees). We want UNRWA to give it to us."
4. Truck carrying people with flour bags
5. Wide of people carrying flour bags
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Muhamad, displaced Palestinian:
“The situation is bad but thank God I was able to get it. We bring food at risk of our own blood. There is death, shooting, and the situation is extremely bad.”
7. People on donkey cart
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ghayad Heles, Gaza City resident:
“Ten days ago, I brought a bag of flour and it’s gone. It ran out yesterday, there’s nothing left. I went today and God helped me get one.”
9. Mid of people carrying flour bags
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wael Salman, displaced Palestinian:
“I managed to get one bag out. I went and asked someone else to help me because it’s hard to carry a 50-kilo bag alone. I gave him half and took the other half. I hope God will make it up to us next time.”
11. Various of people carrying flour bags
STORYLINE:
Streams of people carrying flour bags on their backs were seen returning through the Zikim crossing between Gaza and Israel Wednesday evening.
It comes as at least 48 Palestinians were killed and dozens were wounded on Wednesday while waiting for food at the crossing in the Gaza Strip, according to a local hospital that received the casualties.
The latest violence around aid distribution came as the U.S. Mideast envoy was heading to Israel for talks.
Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said the dead and wounded were among crowds gathered at the Zikim Crossing, the main entry point for humanitarian aid to northern Gaza.
It was not immediately clear who opened fire and there was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which controls the crossing.
Israel’s ongoing military offensive and blockade have led to the “worst-case scenario of famine” in the coastal territory of some 2 million Palestinians, according to the leading international authority on hunger crises.
A breakdown of law and order has seen aid convoys overwhelmed by desperate crowds.
“The situation is bad but thank God I was able to get it. We bring food at risk of our own blood. There is death, shooting, and the situation is extremely bad," said Abu Muhammed, a father of six while carrying a 50-kg bag of flour on his shoulders.
U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, who has led the Trump administration’s efforts to wind down the nearly 22-month war and release hostages taken in Hamas’ October 7 attack that sparked the conflict, will arrive in Israel on Thursday for talks on the situation in Gaza.
A U.S. official confirmed the visit, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss plans not yet made public.
Under heavy international pressure, Israel announced a series of measures over the weekend to facilitate the entry of more international aid to Gaza, but aid workers say much more is needed.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, the leading world authority on hunger crises, has stopped short of declaring famine in Gaza but said Tuesday that the situation has dramatically worsened and warned of "widespread death" without immediate action.
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