Ahmad, a 16-year-old boy in Gaza, leaves his home at 3 a.m., armed with an iron hammer and a utility knife. But Ahmad is not a soldier, nor a fighter. He seeks only one thing: to obtain a sack of flour. And to do so, he must be prepared to die.
Palestinians in Gaza are watching the skies as missiles fall on Tel Aviv instead of them. While many think Israel can be defeated, others are left frustrated that Iran did not intervene and come to Gaza’s aid sooner.
Palestinians refer to the locations where the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is distributing aid as “massacre sites” and “death traps” due to near-daily killings. But they are forced to visit because there is no other way to get food.
Netanyahu admits Israel is arming gangs and clan members in Gaza to counter Hamas’s influence, and new evidence shows Israel is using them to loot aid and implement its displacement plan. In response, the Hamas government set up the “Arrow Unit.”
Journalists in Gaza know they could be killed at any moment by the Israeli army for telling the truth. It doesn’t stop them from doing their jobs.
The Israeli army has killed over 100 Palestinians at the U.S.-run aid distribution centers in Gaza in under two weeks. By now, it follows a predictable script, either denying the massacre or claiming soldiers fired on “suspicious” individuals.
Another U.S.-run aid center was the site of a massacre in southern Gaza after Israeli forces opened fire on civilians. “The Americans and Israelis set a huge trap for us to lure us here and kill us,” an eyewitness told Mondoweiss.
For the third time this week, chaos broke out at the aid distribution point run by the U.S. and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Eyewitnesses said American mercenaries did not intervene once they witnessed armed looting in at the site.
On Tuesday, thousands of desperate Palestinians went to Rafah where the new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was distributing long-awaited food and aid. Instead of bringing food to their families, some ended up dead and missing.
After hours of waiting under the scorching sun, starving Palestinians stormed the militarized aid distribution point run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Live fire was reportedly opened on the crowd, as people struggled to get their hands on aid.