(5 Aug 2025)
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Morag Area, Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip – 4 August 2025
1. Various of thousands of people crowding around trucks and climbing on them for aid
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Qassas, from Khan Younis:
“We are forced to, we want to feed our children. I have young children, how am I supposed to feed them? No one has mercy. This resembles the end of the world. It’s every man for himself. If we fight, we get the food. If we don’t fight, we don’t get anything.”
3. Various of people crowding around trucks and climbing on them, trucks driving away
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Qassas, from Khan Younis:
“The conditions are very challenging and we are hoping for a system to be in place. Some people are deprived. Some people go home with some 200 kilograms, and others go home with only one kilogram. It is a mafia-like system.”
5. Various of people collecting aid from trucks
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yusif Abu Mor, from Khan Younis:
“These are called death traps. This aid is stained with humiliation and blood. If the shootings do not kill you, you will die from being run over by trucks.”
7. Various of people climbing trucks of aid
8. Various of people carrying body of killed woman covered with boxes of aid
9. Various of people carrying bags of aid and leaving
STORYLINE:
Thousands of Palestinians crowded against aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip through the Morag corridor on Monday, attempting to get whatever food they could amid a protracted food shortage across the enclave.
Mohammed Qassas from Khan Younis in southern Gaza says he is forced to go to aid trucks to get whatever he can to feed his children.
“I have young children, how am I supposed to feed them? No one has mercy. This resembles the end of the world,” he says defeatedly.
“If we fight, we get the food. If we don’t fight, we don’t get anything.”
As the trucks drive away, men are seen climbing on them and scrambling around to get food.
“The conditions are very challenging and we are hoping for a system to be in place. Some people are deprived,” Qassas says.
Some people go home with some 200 kilograms, and others go home with only one kilogram. It is a mafia-like system.”
After relentless efforts to get food from the trucks, it has become a routine for mainly men to be seen coming back carrying flour sacks on their back, as well as carrying wounded and dead bodies from near the aid sites.
Israel’s blockade and military offensive have made it nearly impossible to safely deliver aid, contributing to the territory’s slide toward famine nearly 22 months into the war with Hamas.
More than a week has passed since Israel, under international pressure amid growing scenes of starving children, announced limited humanitarian pauses and airdrops meant to get more food to Gaza’s over 2 million people. They now largely rely on aid after almost 22 months of war.
But the United Nations, partners and Palestinians say far too little aid is coming in, with months of supplies piled up outside Gaza waiting for Israeli approval.
Trucks that enter are mostly stripped of supplies by desperate people and criminal groups before reaching warehouses for distribution.
Experts this week said a “worst-case scenario of famine” was occurring.
Yusif Abu Mor from Khan Younis says of the aid entry system that it is akin to death traps.
“This aid is stained with humiliation and blood. If the shootings do not kill you, you will die from being run over by trucks.”
The military says it has only fired warning shots and denied shooting at civilians.
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