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Israel fires at Palestinians waiting for food in Gaza, shows UN video
In this screengrab from a video shared by the United Nations (UN), Palestinians are seen sitting as a UN convoy with food supplies approaches them in the Gaza Strip. The UN said Israeli bullets were landing merely inches away from these people. (Photo: UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)
The United Nations (UN) has published a video that shows bullets landing merely inches away from Palestinians waiting for food supplies in the Gaza Strip.
In recent months, hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in Gaza at food distribution sites. While Palestinians say these deaths were a result of Israeli gunfire and airstrikes, Israel has blamed these deaths on Hamas.
In a video shared by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Thursday on X, gunfire is heard and the impact of bullets is seen merely inches away from hundreds of Palestinians sitting quietly as a UN convoy carrying food supply approaches them.
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In the video, the OCHA said, 'Israeli forces were firing warning shots just inches from a crowd waiting for a UN convoy with food supplies.'
The OCHA further said that at least one Palestinian at the site was injured, who was treated by the UN personnel.
No one should be forced to risk their life to eat.
Every day, @UN teams collect critical supplies from Gaza's crossings, bringing them to those struggling to survive.
But movement is often delayed, and desperate crowds who gather to offload, are met with gunfire.#Gaza today⬇️ pic.twitter.com/ag8NcwZlm1 — UN Humanitarian (@UNOCHA) July 30, 2025
The video showing Israeli soldiers firing at Palestinians has appeared at a time when the outrage against the Israeli war in Gaza is rising by the day over the hunger crisis in the Palestinian enclave. Between March and mid-May, Israel completely stopped the supply of aid to Gaza, which meant that no food, medicine, or other essentials like cooking fuel, entered the enclave. As a result, the strip is now in the grips of a hunger crisis that has taken several lives.
The UN has said that at least 74 Palestinians have died from hunger and malnutrition, with 63 of these deaths in July alone. Palestinians have further said that more than 1,000 people have been killed while trying to get killed in what they said were Israeli attacks.
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The international outrage is such that even US President Donald Trump, the foremost supporter of Israeli actions, has broken ranks and said that Gaza is indeed in the grip of starvation and getting Gazans fed is his number one responsibility.
Israeli forces held food convoy for 2 hours, says UN
In the video, OCHA's Olga Cherevka said that Israeli forces held the food convoy for more than two and a half hours at the Karem Shalom border crossing.
Flagging the various constraints imposed by Israel, Cherevka said that Israel gives very little time to load the trucks with supplies that does not give them ties to fasten the supplies on trucks with belts or tarps that makes supplies vulnerable to falling off the vehicles on Gaza's uneven roads.
From more than a year of Israeli bombardment, most of the Gazan landscape is a cratered mass. A UN estimate has said that 92 per cent of all buildings have been destroyed or damaged in Israeli attacks.
'Access must be expanded. Much more needs to be entering on a regular basis so the communities have the confidence that supplies are coming and that they will be receiving them and they will be distributed properly,' said Cherevka.
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Amid worldwide condemnation over starvation in Gaza, Israel has announced localised ceasefires to facilitate the flow of aid, but critics have said that the flow is merely a trickle and nowhere near enough. Moreover, the Israeli media has reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has held meetings to impose a complete blockade of Gaza again and annex the entire enclave.
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