Gazans targeted by Israeli military as they try to access food aid

The horrific conditions in Gaza intensify as the world turns its attention to the possibility of war with Iran. Israel is now attacking starving Gazans seeking food aid, shelling and shooting vulnerable people who are forced to travel to remote areas to get desperately needed food. So called “aid distribution sites” are being turned into killing fields. Since late May, over 400 have been killed and over 3,000 wounded in a new term coined by the Gaza health ministry: “aid massacres.”

Displaced families, such as that of 28-year-old Ahmed Nejm, travel to distribution sites out of desperation. “There is no bread and no flour,” he says. With his cousins and neighbors, he arrived at the site near Wadi Gaza (the Netzarim Corridor) before dawn on June 11 to wait for hours. 

The Israelis attacked without warning, opening fire with live ammunition and quadcopters. Dozens were killed, including Nejm’s 15-year-old cousin Abdulrahman. Covered in blood, Nejm managed to crawl away as the bullets kept coming. Ambulances were unable to reach the area and he was eventually carried to Al-Aqsa hospital. “We were in an area [the Israelis] had marked as green on the map. I don’t know why they started firing,” he said.

The report on Drop Site News by Hamza M. Salha and Sharif Abdel Kouddous spells out the story in horrifying detail.