(31 Jul 2025)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 31 July 2025
1. Various of people carrying bags of flour
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rakan Jneid, 23, resident:
“I went to get flour for nine people. We passed through and shooting broke out. Everyone rushed at the trucks, most of the people were run over. And many others pass through and walk by the tank in order to eat and get flour for their children. Today, milk came in and people started fighting each other to take the milk, and the Israelis opened fire to take advantage of the situation.”
3. Wide of people carrying flour
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rakan Jneid, 23, resident:
“I’m scared, but come on, a person needs to eat. What should I do? Be afraid, or starve to death at home?"
5. Wide of people carrying flour
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim Jneid, Palestinian from Gaza:
“We went to Zikim and we brought nothing, (we went) to bring food to survive, and we came back empty and disappointed, we didn’t bring anything at all.”
7. Various of people carrying flour sacks
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Muhannad Abu Jarad, Palestinian from Gaza:
“I went to Zikim to get flour, but I couldn’t get in because the Israeli army was shooting at us. The trailer in the second delivery had baby formula. I have three children, and I want to donate one to others. I took two cans: one for my kids, and one for the lucky one (who needs it).”
9. Various of people carrying flour
10. Various of woman carrying flour
11. Wide of people carrying flour
12. Wide of truck with people on it waving and shouting
STORYLINE:
Thousands of people carrying sacks of flour were seen on Thursday returning from Zikim crossing between Gaza and Israel.
“I went to get flour for nine people. We passed through and shooting broke out,“ said 23-year-old Rakan Jneid, with a bag of flour slung over his back.
“I’m scared, but come on, a person needs to eat. What should I do? Be afraid, or starve to death at home?”
U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Israel on Thursday to discuss the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza, as the death toll of Palestinians waiting for food and other aid continued to climb.
At least 91 Palestinians were killed and more than 600 wounded while attempting to get aid in the past 24 hours, the Gaza Health Ministry said Thursday.
The victims included 54 people killed while awaiting food in northern Gaza near the Zikim crossing on Wednesday, the ministry said.
“(We went) to bring food to survive, and we came back empty and disappointed, we didn’t bring anything at all," said Ibrahim Jneid, who returned empty handed from the area where crowds climbed aid trucks trying to get food.
Under heavy international pressure, Israel announced a series of measures over the weekend to facilitate the entry of more international aid to Gaza.
The international community has heaped criticism on Israel over the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza. Despite the measures that include airdrops, the amount of aid getting into Gaza remains far lower than the 500 to 600 trucks per day that aid organizations say are needed.
The Israeli defense body in charge of coordinating humanitarian aid in Gaza said 270 trucks of aid entered Gaza on Wednesday, and 32 pallets of aid were airdropped into the Strip.
International organizations said that Gaza has been on the brink of famine for the past two years, but that recent developments, including a complete blockade on aid for 2 1/2 months, mean that the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza".
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