Humanitarian aid is dropped into Gaza from an American plane (Reuters)

The French newspaper La Croix - in a report written by Vincien Joly - collected testimonies from several people in Gaza, in which they spoke about the lack of aid, hunger, the small amount that is dropped from the air, and the tensions that result from that.

Muhammad Al-Hafi, a social sciences professor and father who was displaced to Rafah, said, “I don’t know where to start. There are things that are not talked about... Aid does not reach the people, most of whom suffer from hunger and thirst, but rather disappears before reaching the markets.”

Muhammad adds that there are now drops of aid, but dropping food from the sky “reinforces the law of the jungle, as the strongest or the armed are able to collect aid, while ordinary people can only access it through luck.”

As for the aid that passes by land, most of it is looted, and the rest reaches the markets at an exaggerated price, where the price of a kilo of sugar reaches $40, and a kilo of onions is the same. “People are dying of hunger and poverty. Even those who have money in a bank account cannot now withdraw it... "The banks themselves are in crisis. As for inflation, it is breaking records. Everything is in crisis."

For her part, Umm Basil, a mother of six children, from Rafah, says, “What can I say? My brother and father were killed. We don’t even think about eating and drinking anymore. We just want the war to end. We are tired,” and she adds that aid is not arriving. Very little.

It is not enough. “Everything arrives in small quantities. Bread, milk, and vegetables are difficult to find. When we do find them, they are at a high price.”

Ahmed, from Rafah - according to the newspaper - says that very little food arrives, and that aid is stolen and sold at exaggerated prices on the black market, explaining, “Today I went to the queue to get an aid package. I stood in front of the parcel receiving point from 7 am until 4 am.” Evening and I didn't get anything. I won't come back tomorrow. I can't stand for a long time. We are suffocating in the crowd. The police are shooting in the air to keep people away and prevent fights. It's humiliating. Thank God we still find food but it's expensive. I'm afraid the situation will be difficult Especially during the month of Ramadan.

Neurosurgeon Muhammad Al-Sharif (34 years old), an American on assignment at the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, says that he performed surgery on a 14-year-old boy, but there was nothing to feed him with. “One of us brought himself proteins for his mission in Gaza.” “We ground it and gave it to him through a stomach tube. Doctors usually ask the family to provide food for patients, but here she can barely feed herself.”

Source: Lacroix