Two thousand trucks are piled up in front of them, with starving people across the border. Egypt blames the occupation for fear of bombing aid, while voices are rising that a stronger stance would force Israel to retreat.
Besieged Gaza appears like an island of land, while the scene of piled-up trucks represents an Arab and humanitarian image of helplessness, at best, in a war the horror of which the world has not known in its modern history. The images were obtained by Al Jazeera from a journalist Fatima Al-Triki.