(27 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE GRAPHIC EDIT - EDIT CONTAINS DISTRESSING IMAGES OF DEAD BODIES++
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 26 July 2025
1. Various of men walking by the rubble of buildings, some carrying bags of flour
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Hamami, Palestinian from Shati refugee camp:
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"I brought flour for the children. I swear to God that for several days I have not had any flour. We entered for death, near the tanks, and we saw the soldiers, and they shot at us, they shot us with flares and bullets. Look at the young men, all the bags of flour have blood on them. All the bags of flour that the young men have blood on them. Listen, we are bringing this for our children, we are enduring it for our children."
3. Men carrying the body of a man ++GRAPHIC IMAGE++
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fayez Abu Riyala, Palestinian from Shati refugee camp:
++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 3, 5++
"There are a lot of martyrs and injuries, and trucks are hitting people, there is no mercy, you are dying just to bring a morsel of food for your children."
5. Mid of men walking and on vehicles, some carrying bags of flour
6. Various of people walking carrying bags of flour
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of weary Palestinians carried sacks of flour on their shoulders after they managed to fetch them from a truck envoy that entered Gaza on Saturday through the Zikim crossing with Israel.
While some of them managed to get bags of flour, others returned empty-handed, and some died on the attempt.
Eyewitnesses say that the crowds were hit by trucks, and Israeli troops opened fire toward them as Palestinians rushed toward the aid convoy, hoping to bring flour for their families.
A group of men carried the body of a dead man, and said that he was hit by a truck.
Fayez Abu Riyala from the al-Shati refugee camp along Gaza City’s shoreline, walked near a military tank to fetch some flour, and he marched through gunfire to bring some food for his children.
“There were a lot of martyrs and wounded people, and the trucks were hitting people, there is no mercy,” said Abu Riyala. “You are dying just to bring a morsel of food for your children".
Mohamed Hamami says that he was inching toward death but he managed to bring flour to his children.
“We entered for death, near the tanks, and we saw the soldiers, and they shot at us, they shot us with flares and bullets”.
Hamami, also from al-Shati refugee camp, said “All the bags of flour that the young men have blood on them. Listen, we are bringing this for our children, we are enduring it for our children”.
Israel's military said it fired warning shots to distance a crowd “in response to an immediate threat" and it was not aware of any casualties.
It comes as the Israeli military on Sunday began a limited pause in fighting in three populated areas of Gaza for 10 hours a day, part of a series of steps launched as concerns over surging hunger in the territor... [truncated]
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