French aid airdrops into the Gaza Strip (Reuters)
The people of Gaza are still suffering from the starvation policy practiced on them by the Israeli occupation. The scarcity of delivering aid by land has worsened the situation and claimed the lives of many children and the elderly due to malnutrition. As for the airdrops carried out by some countries, even if they are modest, they do not rise to the size of Disaster is welcome if it actually achieves this purpose, according to some people.
“O Anas, humiliate us.” With this phrase, Ghazi’s child addressed journalist Anas Al-Sharif in a video that the latter published on his accounts on social media platforms. Anas commented on the clip by saying:
"This child's heartbreak and crying hurt our hearts! This child, whom you see in his words as a man, walked 10 kilometers to search for food to satisfy his family's hunger, and to carry the burden of widows who cannot find anyone to help them obtain this aid. The airdrop boxes are a humiliation for the citizens."
As for the child, he said in the video that he traveled a distance of 10 kilometers in his search for food to satisfy the hunger of his family members, and with a burning sensation and a tear on his cheek, he said, “Oh Anas Al-Sharif, we have humiliated us by throwing them into the sea. Why don’t they deliver them to the homes of the hungry and widows? My brothers, I ask them to give me everything I need.” ".
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The video received great interaction on social media platforms, and sparked a wave of indignation and resentment from activists, supporting the child’s words about airdrops. Since Arab and Western countries, the most recent of which is the United States, began airdrops of aid to the people of Gaza, there have been many questions among the audience on social media platforms about The reason for not sending it overland was that some described it as “humiliation, not landing.”
Humiliation, not subjugation!…
A message from a Gazan child: “Oh dear Anas,
we have been humiliated...” No one lived to be humiliated by that, my child. You are dignity in its finest form, and we are the ones who live the humiliation with our silence, failure, and conspiracy.
Hunger is an infidel, but submission is an infidelity of a different kind. You have not tasted the taste of it in Gaza. Hashem, because you breathed freedom. When you were young, you nursed pride despite the siege and bombing... pic.twitter.com/5wYePuICU0
- Wael Ahmed Al-Hourani (@wael19591) March 10, 2024
With a tear rolling down his cheek... a Palestinian child from Gaza says to Al Jazeera’s correspondent, as he searches for a meal for his younger siblings from the ones dropped by planes of aerial humiliation: “Oh Anas Al-Sharif, humiliate us.” pic.twitter.com/WFlYClREJP
- Ibrahim Muhammad Al-Munify (@Ebrahim_Almnify) March 10, 2024
The children of Gaza are men in the bodies of children.
Words such as humility, concern for others, and family responsibilities
are adhered to by the males who are still alive and do not know that they will return to them in their attempt to find what will satisfy their hunger.
If you think that the current generation is strong, the next generation will come as mighty as this war is strong and difficult
— 7 Oct ||
Ihob (@666_ehab) March 9, 2024
The video has received more than a million views since Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Al-Sharif published it on his Instagram page.
Videos from eyewitnesses showed planes dropping a large number of aid boxes, but some of them did not open their parachutes properly, which led to them falling quickly on gatherings of Palestinians waiting for them to land, resulting in deaths and injuries among citizens.
Earlier, the government media office in Gaza said that random airdrops of humanitarian aid caused the death of 5 Palestinians and several injuries when they fell on the heads of citizens as a result of the wrong landing.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, leaving tens of thousands of civilian victims, most of them children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and massive infrastructure destruction, which led to Israel being brought before the International Court of Justice on charges of genocide.
Source: Al Jazeera + social networking sites