How Gaza queues turned into the killing areas

Their attempt was the sixth in a week, a dangerous journey under the southern Gaza coast towards the US -backed food distribution site. Abed Zidan, 14, and his mother, Reem, expressed, this time, they will arrive before the food runs out.

Eight hours after their career on Tuesday, when they approached the center, the sound of tanks and fire broke out. Zidane saw death bodies at his feet. He put his face down on the floor next to his sister and mother, waiting for the first light. People began to whisper that it might be safe to move.

From the ground, Zidane saw his mother starting to stand, before she was dropped by a sniper bullet with a bullet on her head. He said: “Because I am a young man, I felt fear and left my mother.” “I fled.”

Zaydan is one of the eight Palestinians who spoke to the financial Times about their attempt to reach the site of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in West Rafah during the past week. Thousands of people who have thousands of people, hoping to approach the relief center before the opening time 5 in the morning so that they have the opportunity to get food.

For the Palestinians, desperate supplies after Israel imposed a siege for more than two months on the tape, which brought their attempts to get food from GHF more horror than relief. Every day was different, but the dangers they described were the same.

The tanks, drones, such as Kawadkopter, and snipers, which they said came from the Israeli army, called the Palestinians awaiting the opening of the site.

As for the Ehab Jomaa telecommunications worker, it was four in the morning on Sunday when the fire broke out in the dreaming roundabout, which is the last point where people are waiting before running to the distribution site.

He and five friends covered the ruins of a diluted beach hotel. Turn off their phones, and they remained calm.

Then, Kawadkop appeared, and began shooting at the warning shots. “The microphone has run and said:” You must leave, we will shoot you. “Once we stood up and prepared to leave, I moved to a different area.” “He shot a boy seven meters from us in his chest.”

Witnesses who spoke to FT said that running in the final extending to the distribution site began around 5 am. Those who have reached the site often found all the foods that have already disappeared.

Many tried to reach the distribution site for several days in a row, despite the killings. They were so hungry after the siege of Israel to the point that they continued to try.

The losses were heavier in two days. The Gaza Ministry of Health said that the Israeli forces killed 27 people and were injured 161 pending help on Tuesday morning. On Sunday, 35 people were killed and more than 150 Israeli fire on the crowds gathered in the pain area. The ministry said that all those who were killed on Sunday opened fire on his head or chest.

The ICRC said that the Rafah Field Hospital received about 180 patients in each of the two days, with the majority of fiery wounds. Each of them said they are trying to access a distribution site.

Israel opposed the description of the Ministry of Health to shoot, but it admitted that it fired a “warning” – and on Tuesday “additional” – footage of the people who said they have moved away by arriving or approached the forces.

An Israeli security official said that some shootings had occurred outside the hours of GHF sites, when the surrounding areas were classified as a “war zone that is not intended to be in” civilians). “

The official added that changes were made to access to making them safer. The IDF also claimed some of the shots launched by Hamas.

On his fifth trip to the distribution site, he saw the 45 -year -old Hossam Zorab on Tuesday that his friend was shot a short distance in front of him. Zorab could not save him, and he was determined to find food for his eight children, so he waited with others to rush to the site.

He said there was no check -in or an effective entrance system. The crowds were kept instead in the river fire. “There is no gate, but from 2 am to 5 am, there is a continuous shooting. The shooting is the gate.”

Inside the distribution centers, boxes and oil boxes were opened on the sandy floor and people took their power. Foreign mercenaries laughed at the scene, according to two witnesses. The Palestinian contractors looked at the Florence jackets.

GHF did not respond to a request for comment, but he previously said that the shooting occurred outside his distribution sites.

Ashraf Abu Shibl, a six -year father, went to the site three times: Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. But every time he reached the site, everything was already taken.

He tried to ask one of the security contractors on Tuesday why nothing remains. He said that the contractor sprayed pepper in the face. Three other witnesses, including the person who sprayed himself, said that the contractors used spraying and connected bombs inside the site.

“Today, I didn’t want to go. I am tired,” said Abu Shibl. “If you want to starve people, continue to do so, but don’t do this like this.”

Abed Zaidan recorded hospitals in the hope of finding his wounded mother, imagining her face alive and in the bed of the intensive care unit. He was in Nasser Hospital when a paramedic arrived with three unidentified dead women. Zidane knows one of them.

“This is not help,” Zidane said. “It is a mouse trap.”

Participated in additional reports by James Stoster in Jerusalem