STORY: :: Palestinians scramble for food aid as parcels are airdropped in north Gaza
:: August 7, 2025
:: North Gaza, Gaza
:: Abu Mohammed al-Omar, Palestinian father
“I got lentil and tomato paste as you see, for a family of six. We are dying, you see what people look like. Whatever we get is not enough. One pallet for a million people like you see, this is what I got, it is cut open. We want to feed our children.”
“The hunger…I have six (family members) …I have four children. They want to eat, where can I get them food from? We go to Zikim, and we see death with our own eyes, and we go back without anything. Death takes place in front of us. We come here for the airdrops, and this is what we get from the airdrops and there’s a lot of suffering. There are a lot of people here, not one or two. A thousand (people) for one pallet?”
A senior Palestinian official said Hamas had told Arab mediators that an increase in humanitarian aid entering Gaza would lead to a resumption in ceasefire negotiations.
Israeli officials accuse Hamas of seizing aid to hand out to its fighters and to sell in Gazan markets to finance its operations, accusations that the militant group denies.
Close to 200 Palestinians have died of starvation in Gaza since the war began, nearly half of them have been children, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
U.N. agencies say airdrops are insufficient and that Israel must let in far more aid by land and open up access to the territory to prevent starvation among its 2.2 million people, most of whom are displaced amidst vast swathes of rubble.
