Males, girls and kids seen working in all instructions away from Israeli troopers attacking the determined assist seekers.
Israeli army personnel have pepper-sprayed determined and ravenous Palestinian assist seekers at one of many distribution factors of the controversial assist company GHF in Gaza, a video reveals.
Within the 20-second video verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking company Sanad, Israeli troops have been seen scattering a crowd with pepper spray at Shakoush in Gaza’s southern metropolis of Rafah.
The cell phone video, recorded on July 10 and launched on social media late on Saturday, reveals three armed troopers utilizing the pepper spray towards the Palestinians on the Israeli and United States-backed GHF assist level.
The GHF safety personnel fired pepper spray at Palestinians who went to obtain assist in Al Shakoush space in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. 10/7/2025 pic.twitter.com/uZbhyoMgdM
— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) July 19, 2025
Males, girls and kids may very well be seen working in all instructions away from the troopers – some overlaying their mouths with their garments, others frantically dashing to depart the scene with luggage of flour hoisted on their backs.
Because the GHF began working in Gaza in late Might, a minimum of 891 folks have been killed while trying to get food, the Palestinian Ministry of Well being mentioned on Saturday.
A July 15 report by the United Nations discovered that a minimum of 674 of these folks have been killed “within the neighborhood of GHF websites”.
The highly criticised aid operation has successfully sidelined Gaza’s huge UN-led assist supply community after Israel eased a greater than two-month complete blockade on the enclave.
The video of Palestinians being pepper-sprayed got here as Israel’s genocidal struggle in Gaza noticed a minimum of 84 extra Palestinians killed on Sunday, 73 of them assist seekers, as of 12:30 GMT on Sunday.
On Saturday, 116 Palestinians have been killed throughout the enclave, together with a minimum of 38 assist seekers. That quantity was upgraded on Sunday to 130 folks killed and 495 wounded.
Mahmoud Mokeimar, a Palestinian in Gaza, mentioned he was strolling with a crowd of individuals, principally younger males, in direction of the GHF hub when Israeli troops fired warning photographs and shortly opened hearth.
“The occupation opened hearth at us indiscriminately,” he informed The Related Press information company.
Mokeimar mentioned he noticed a minimum of three immobile our bodies on the bottom and lots of wounded folks fleeing.
“Until Israel permits extra meals into Gaza, Palestinians haven’t any alternative however to threat their lives only for one thing to eat,” mentioned Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah in Gaza.
“Dad and mom go to the GHF distribution websites to threat getting killed or depart their kids ravenous. There isn’t any choice out there. Every part could be very costly.”
In the meantime, Palestinians, together with infants and toddlers, proceed to die from hunger throughout Gaza.
4-year-old Razan Abu Zaher died of problems from malnutrition and starvation, a supply at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza Metropolis informed Al Jazeera on Sunday.
On Saturday, the director of al-Shifa Hospital mentioned two Palestinians had died of hunger, together with a 35-day-old toddler.
On Friday, the Well being Ministry mentioned ravenous Palestinians are arriving in hospital emergency departments throughout Gaza in “unprecedented numbers”, as Israel continues to severely limit entry to meals in Gaza and shoot folks searching for assist.
Israel’s struggle on Gaza has killed a minimum of 58,895 folks and wounded 140,980 others as of 1230 GMT on Sunday. An estimated 1,139 folks have been killed in Israel in the course of the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 assaults, and greater than 200 have been taken captive.