(21 Aug 2025)
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Nuseirat, Gaza Strip – 21 August 2025
1. Various of planes dropping aid over central Gaza Strip
2. Various of people gathering to collect aid
3. People carrying aid and leaving UPSOUND of gunfire
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdel Kareem Abdel Al, displaced from Gaza City:
”This way of airdropping is very humiliating. What happened here in the area is something terrible and beyond imagination. People attacked each other, they opened fire, parachutes landed on the tents, they destroyed the tents. Today the cheapest tent costs 2,000 shekels. Today people don’t have money, they don’t have money to build a tent. These aren’t aid drops but humiliation, humiliation of the people. I’m forced to leave the door of my tent holding a knife. This is not right. I may be forced to hit a person, I may be forced to kill a person, or another person may kill me. This is not right.”
5. Various of people collecting aid from the ground, UPSOUND of gunfire
6. Various of people fighting to get aid
7. Some people carrying aid and leaving
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Alaa Saed, from Zawaida:
”We are coming for aid under difficult circumstances, and a war of extermination. It is suffering, a great suffering. Most of what they drop lands on people’s homes, it lands in densely populated areas, and shooting happens, and there are casualties and deaths. I hope that those who want to help us do so in a respectable way, and deliver it (the aid) to every home in a respectable way. Because our people are respectable and we’re not barbarians to enter people’s homes in this way (when aid falls inside people’s homes) and gunfire occurs, This is a farce. We demand that those who bring the aid and manage the airdrops drop the aid in a respectable way, in an empty space that serves everyone.”
9. Various of man showing what he got from dropping aid
10. Various of plane dropping aid over central Gaza Strip
STORYLINE:
Palestinians in central Gaza scrambled to collect aid packages dropped by parachute on Thursday, as Israel’s plans to launch a new military operation in the Strip advanced.
In the central area of Nuseirat, scores of people scuffled after a military cargo plane dropped dozens of containers of aid.
Gaza’s population of nearly 2 million is desperate for food and medicine after almost two years of war between Israel and the Hamas militant group.
Israel resumed international air drops and partially eased the entry of aid trucks into the enclave in July in response to international outrage, after footage of children suffering from malnutrition surfaced.
In Nuseirat, young men and boys carrying backpacks and bags chased the descending container to its landing point between some tents and residential buildings.
The crowds pushed and shoved, scrabbling to get what they could from the container.
In a scene of desperation and chaos, some of the boys tripped over each other, as men brandishing wooden sticks sough to clear the crowds.
Gunshots could be heard from a distance, apparently to try to displace the crowds.
One man left with a can of peas and a carton of hummus.
Abdel Kareem Abdel Al, a Palestinian displaced from Gaza City, described the chase for the airdrops as “very humiliating.”
The situation has become so desperate, he says, that he cannot leave his tent without a knife to protect himself.
“Today people do not have money, they do not have money to build a tent,” said Abdel Al.
“I may be forced to hit a person, I may be forced to kill a person, or another person may kill me. This is not right.”
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