Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are running to collect aid dropped on them from the air (Al Jazeera)
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The neighborhoods in the center of Gaza City seem very spacious despite the number of people remaining in them and despite their narrow situation, like an empty ghost city with no breath except for those standing on the rubble of their homes. There is no overcrowding in the city except around the water wells and in the streets of the well-known markets, where vendors are displayed on both sides of the road. With the remaining goods in their possession, Ramadan did not change anything except that it gave parents additional time, until sunset, to search for anything that would help them and their children survive.
In Gaza, the quest is not limited to fathers alone. Here, a woman wearing a prayer dress, which has become the official uniform for displaced women, runs towards the box that fell from the sky, which was thrown by an Arab plane, hoping to get something from it. I quicken my steps and ask her in front of this crowd of men: “Will you be able to Achieve something?!” She answered me with her eyes fixed on the balloon: “I am the man of the house. My husband was martyred and left me 6 children. If I had not run, who would have run for me!”
Palestinians carry bags of flour that they were able to collect from a humanitarian aid truck (Al Jazeera)
Struggle over crumbs
Umm Bashir runs while hundreds of other men stand a few meters away, not bothering to run. They say: “We run and fight over crumbs? Over canned food and biscuits?” While Abu Khaled and his sons refrain from approaching all these gatherings, commenting to Al Jazeera Net that from If he wants to get some of this aid, he must be armed. “And I am not ready to lose my children because of flour! Do they want us to slaughter each other so that we can eat?”
Abu Khaled's situation is like that of many who have lost hope of obtaining any aid landing by air or passing by land. They see rushing to it in vain, and arming themselves in a way that scares away those fighting over it as a condition for the spoils. Victory is for the strongest, and rushing for it may cost a lifetime, so they prefer hunger over death for the sake of spoils. Satiety.
On the other hand, while walking in the Al-Sabra neighborhood south of Gaza City, dozens of needy people line up in front of a flour warehouse, which eyewitnesses say contains several truckloads of flour, which was controlled by a family.
Women stand at its gate, “begging” or pleading for one kilo of flour. Hajj Umm Ayman says to Al Jazeera Net after she left the place empty-handed, after hours of waiting: “Who authorized these families to grant the certificates allowing them to take a kilo or not!” And by that she means who It monopolizes the aid that enters by land via Al-Rashid Street.
Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip line up at water stations and wells (Al Jazeera)
Targeting organization attempts
A state of public discontent prevails in the streets of Gaza, as some families have been able, by force of arms, to tighten their grip on most of the truckloads and monopolize them, in a precedent for “organized chaos” in the northern Gaza Strip, which pleases the occupation, which has recently been promoting handing over the administration of the Strip to clans in Gaza, which it saw as Mayor of Gaza City, Alaa Al-Aklouk, “It is absolutely not possible.”
Al-Aklouk told Al-Jazeera Net: “The tribes do not have the ability or capabilities to play this role. They do not have an army, nor an administrative, reform, or judicial system.” Al-Aklouk stressed that “the tribes are partners in achieving societal security and are not an alternative to the existing ruling system.”
Al-Mukhtar pointed out that a committee of tribal notables is continuing to perform its role in supervising the arrangement for the entry of food supplies into the northern Gaza Strip, after agreeing with police personnel to secure and provide protection for them, which Israel did not like, so the “organizers” of the aid entry became targets for assassination, and it became a target for assassination. Flour warehouses are within range of Israeli raids, and organizational and security meetings are vulnerable to being targeted.
Crowded market stalls in the northern Gaza Strip, searching for Palestinians to satisfy their hunger (Al Jazeera)
A police source spoke to Al Jazeera Net, who preferred not to mention his name, and attributed the reasons that the occupation is trying to achieve behind this to attacking all attempts to revive in the northern Gaza Strip, continuing to starve people, and creating a state of permanent chaos to evacuate the residents of the north to the south of the valley. The source said: “ The police are determined to control the chaos and ensure that aid reaches those who deserve it, who have held out in the northern Gaza Strip.”
He stressed that despite the danger facing police and security personnel, their attempts will continue to thwart the occupation’s plans, fight chaos, and protect those trapped from death ambushes. The government media office had previously announced that the occupation targeted 100 aid workers, within one week, in 8 massacres. .
Source: Al Jazeera