(5 Aug 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Morag Area, Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip – 4 August 2025
1. Various of thousands of people crowding around trucks and climbing on for aid
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 4 August 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anas Rabea, truck driver:
++VIA VIDEO CALL++
"It is crazy. In that moment, people climb on top of the truck, on the glass and the windows. As a driver driving, you are driving blind. It is as if someone has closed their eyes and they are driving, relying on God’s help. They could run over the people who are stealing (aid) as they are stealing because the truck is moving and they are blocking his (the driver’s) vision."
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Morag Area, Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip – 4 August 2025
4. Mid of people carrying aid as trucks pass by with people climbing on
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 4 August 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Anas Rabea, truck driver:
++VIA VIDEO CALL++
“The shooting, the roadblocks, the checkpoints and the stones on the roads. Every time we go out, we get robbed, it’s getting worse day by day.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 30 July 2025
6. Various of trucks driving as people walk by carrying aid
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 4 August 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hossni al-Sharafi, Trucking company owner:
++VIA VIDEO CALL++
“These drivers, we choose them because they have spent their entire careers as drivers without political or party affiliation, they are independent. We do not send anyone who is politically active or does anything other than work in transportation. They (Israelis) have conditions and we send the drivers with ID cards and wear vests that distinguish them from other people.”
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 30 July 2025
8. Wide of people carrying bags of flour
9. Wide of trucks driving by people
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Morag Area, Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip – 4 August 2025
14. Various of thousands of people crowding around trucks and climbing on
STORYLINE:
Truck drivers trying to deliver aid inside Gaza say their work has become increasingly dangerous in recent months as people have grown desperately hungry and violent gangs filled a power vacuum left by the territory’s Hamas rulers.
Crowds of hungry people routinely rip aid off the backs of moving trucks, the local drivers said.
Some trucks are hijacked by armed men working for gangs who sell the aid in Gaza’s markets for exorbitant prices.
Israeli troops often shoot into the chaos, they said and drivers have been killed in the mayhem.
Thousands of people packed roads on Monday as two trucks entered southern Gaza, AP video showed.
Young men overwhelmed the trucks, standing on the cabs’ roofs, dangling from the sides and clambering over each other onto the truck beds to grab boxes even as the trucks slowly kept driving.
Hossni al-Sharafi, who runs a freight company and was an aid driver himself, said he is only allowed to use drivers who have no political affiliation and have been approved by Israel to transport aid from crossings.
"We do not send anyone who is politically active or does anything other than work in transportation. They (Israelis) have conditions and we send the drivers with ID card," he told the Associated Press.
Al-Sharafi said he was detained by Israeli forces for more than 10 days last year while transporting aid from the southern Kerem Shalom crossing and interrogated about where the truck was headed and how the aid was being distributed.
Israeli officials did not comment on the accusations.
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