(26 Jul 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 26 July 2025
1. Various of men walking by the rubble of buildings, some carrying bags of flour
2. Mid of men walking and on vehicles some carrying bags of flour
3. Various of men carrying the body of a man ++GRAPHIC IMAGES++
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fayez Abu Riyala, Palestinian from Shati refugee camp:
”What happened to me today, I was walking near the tank to bring flour, under fire and under gunfire just to bring a morsel of food for my children, that’s all I can say."
Reporter: "Are there martyrs, injuries inside?"
Riyala: "There are a lot of martyrs and injuries, and trucks are hitting people, there is no mercy, you are dying just to bring a morsel of food for your children."
5. Various of people walking carrying bags of flour
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Hamami, Palestinian from Shati refugee camp:
"I brought flour for the children. I swear to God that for several days I have not had any flour. We entered for death, near the tanks, and we saw the soldiers, and they shot at us, they shot us with flares and bullets. Look at the young men, all the bags of flour have blood on them. All the bags of flour that the young men have blood on them. Listen, we are bringing this for our children, we are enduring it for our children."
7. Various of people carrying bags of flour
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of weary Palestinians carried sacks of flour on their shoulders after they managed to fetch them from a truck envoy that entered Gaza on Saturday through the Zikim crossing with Israel.
While some of them managed to get bags of flour, others returned empty hands, and some died on the attempt.
Eyewitnesses say that the crowds were hit by trucks, and Israeli troops opened fire toward them as Palestinians rushed toward the aid convoy, hoping to bring flour for their families.
A group of men carried the body of a dead man, and said that he was hit by a truck.
Fayez Abu Riyala from the al-Shati refugee camp along Gaza City’s shoreline, walked near a military tank to fetch some flour, and he marched through gunfire to bring some food for his children.
“There were a lot of martyrs and wounded people, and the trucks were hitting people, there is no mercy,” said Abu Riyala. “You are dying just to bring a morsel of food for your children".
Mohamed Hamami says that he was inching toward death but he managed to bring flour to his children.
“We entered for death, near the tanks, and we saw the soldiers, and they shot at us, they shot us with flares and bullets”.
Hamami, also from al-Shati refugee camp, said “All the bags of flour that the young men have blood on them. Listen, we are bringing this for our children, we are enduring it for our children”.
Israeli airstrikes and gunshots killed at least 53 people in Gaza overnight and into Saturday.
Most of them were shot dead while seeking aid, according to Palestinian health officials and the local ambulance service.
Israel’s military said it fired warning shots to distance a crowd “in response to an immediate threat" and it was not aware of any casualties.
It comes as Israel’s military announced airdrops of aid will begin Saturday night in Gaza, and humanitarian corridors will be established for United Nations convoys, after increasing accounts of starvation-related deaths.
The statement issued late Saturday followed months of experts’ warnings of famine.
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