Like thousands of other Palestinians in Gaza, Hind al-Nawajha is going on a dangerous, kilometre-long journey every day trying to buy some food for her family, hoping she can make it liven up.
Accompanied by her sister Mazouza, the four-year-old mother had to hide on the side of the road, behind a pile of rubble on the side of the road, and gunfire echoed nearby.
“You either come back and bring it with you [food] For your kids, they will be happy, or you will return to the shroud. Or you are unhappy when you come back [without food] Your child will cry.
“This is life; we are slaughtered, we can't do it anymore.”
Gaza medical staff said dozens of Palestinians have been killed in Israeli fires over the past two days as they attempted to bring them to the AIDS trucks from the United Nations and international relief agencies.
At least 51 people were killed by Israeli gunfire and military strikes, including 12 people trying to approach the location where the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) operated in the central Gaza Strip, medical staff said Thursday, the latest near-day report on the killing of people seeking food.
The Israeli military said the “suspects” had several attempts to approach the troops in the Nezarim area in ways that endanger them. It said the troops fired warning guns to prevent suspects from approaching them and are not aware of the damage from the incident.
GHF criticized Gaza health officials in an email, accusing them of regularly posting inaccurate information.
The GHF said Palestinians were unable to access the nearby GHF site through the Netzarim corridor. It does not address the question of whether GHF is aware of such events occurring.
Women, children who died in Israel's separate strike
Meanwhile, 39 people were killed in Israeli air strikes in the northern Gaza Strip, medical staff said. They added that one of these strikes killed at least 19 people in a tent in an al-shati refugee camp in Gaza.
Heba Ziada, 32, said her sister was killed during a strike in Al-Shati that attacked the entrance to the refugee market.
“My sister is 14. What did she do wrong?” Ziada told CBC Press Freedom Photographer Mohamed El Saife on Thursday.
Medical staff said another strike killed at least 14 people and damaged several houses in Jabaliya, north of the enclave.
Israeli troops did not immediately comment on the attacks.
In recent days, the Israeli military said its troops had opened fire and fired warning footage to disperse people close to the areas where the troops operated and pose a threat. It said it is reviewing reports of civilian casualties.
Go back empty-handed after trying to find food
Israel has been introducing much of Gaza's aid through the new U.S. and Israel-backed GHF, which operates a handful of distribution sites in areas guarded by Israeli forces.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said hundreds of Palestinians have been killed since late May in an attempt to reach the GHF location.
The United Nations rejects the GHF delivery system inadequate, dangerous and violates humanitarian justice rules. Israel said it is necessary to prevent Hamas fighters from transferring aid, which Hamas denies.
GHF said Wednesday that in a statement it had distributed 3 million meals on its three aid sites, with no incidents.
At least 20 people were killed in Israel's fire near an aid allocation site in Rafah on Monday and 200 others were injured, according to medical staff. The Gaza Ministry of Health said the deaths were the latest mass shooting, killing at least 300 Palestinians in the past few weeks.
According to the Israeli Sour people, the Gaza war was triggered when Palestinian Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, Israel's subsequent military attack on Gaza killed nearly 55,600 Palestinians, while losing nearly 2 million people in its entire population and causing a hunger crisis.
The Norwegian Refugee Commission warned Thursday that more than one million people do not have enough shelter in Gaza, saying equipment such as tents and tarpaulins have been blocked from entering by Israel since March 1.
Nawajha returned empty-handed on Wednesday’s journey, looking for food, exhausted, exhausted on the dusty ground outside the tent in Gaza, where she has been displaced and lived with her family.
She and her sister have been camping on the road for the past 20 days. They said they tried to force them into distribution sites where trucks with assistance arrived, but were often defeated by men, who sometimes fought for a bag of flour from UN trucks.
“[When] As you can see, there is no food, the kids start crying and getting angry,” Nawajha said. “When we were three kilometers or more on our legs, our feet were bruised, our feet were scratched, and our shoes were torn. ”
