(27 May 2025)
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++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS SHOT OF INJURED PERSON++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rafah, Gaza Strip – 27 May 2025
1. Crowds of Palestinians walking back after trying to reach a newly opened aid distribution center in southern Gaza
2. Israeli military helicopter firing flares
3. Palestinians running
4. Wide of people carrying food boxes
5. A person showing some food supplies
6. Close of the supplies SOUNDUP (Arabic) "Here is rice. Everything is there, this is a blessing from God."
7. A person carrying box and walking away
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasmin Matar, a resident of Gaza:
"We are going to bring food for our children. Feel with us, we want someone to care for us and the tragedy that we are in. We don’t care about gunfire or shelling. What matters is for us to bring food to our children."
9. People walking around, destruction in the background
10. Person moving box on bicycle
11. Person showing food supplies in box, UPSOUND (Arabic) "Rice, rice. This is rice. This is sugar, this is flour, flour."
12. People walking
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hosni Abu Amra, a displaced person from Rafah:
"There was no order, the people rushed (to take something) and we didn’t get to take anything. There was shooting, and we fled. We didn’t take anything that would benefit us, help us get by given the famine that we are in. We didn’t benefit (take anything). There was no order at all, they could not control the people because of the extent of the famine affecting society."
14. Various of people walking back, some carrying food boxes
15. Various of a man injured in the leg, getting help moving on bicycle
16. Various of the crowd
17. People carrying boxes
18. Man stopping to hold up and show items
STORYLINE:
Chaos erupted on the second day of aid operations by a new U.S.-backed group in Gaza as desperate Palestinians overwhelmed a center distributing food on Tuesday, breaking through fences. Israel said nearby troops fired warning shots.
An AP journalist heard Israeli tank and gunfire and saw a military helicopter firing flares.
The Israeli military said its troops fired the warning shots in the area outside the center and that “control over the situation was established.”
At least three injured Palestinians were seen by the Associated Press being brought from the scene, one of them bleeding from his leg.
The distribution hub outside Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah had been opened the day before by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which has been slated by Israel to take over aid operations despite opposition from the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations.
Palestinians have become desperate for food after nearly three months of Israeli blockade pushed Gaza to the brink of famine.
On Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children walked for several miles from the sprawling tent camps along Gaza’s Mediterranean coast — through Israeli military lines — to reach the GHF hub.
In the afternoon, the AP journalist, positioned some distance away, heard gunfire and rounds of tank fire.
Smoke could be seen rising from where one round impacted. He saw a military helicopter overhead firing flares.
Crowds were seen running from the site. A few managed to secure aid boxes — containing basic items like sugar, flour, pasta and tahini — but the vast majority left empty-handed.
In a statement, GHF said that because of the large number of Palestinians seeking aid, staff at the hub followed the group’s safety protocols and "fell back" to allow them to dissipate, then later resumed operations.
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