Males, girls and kids seen operating in all instructions away from Israeli troopers attacking the determined assist seekers.
Israeli army personnel have pepper-sprayed determined and ravenous Palestinian assist seekers at one of many distribution factors of the controversial assist company GHF in Gaza, a video reveals.
Within the 20-second video verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking company Sanad, Israeli troops had been seen scattering a crowd with pepper spray at Shakoush in Gaza’s southern metropolis of Rafah.
The cell phone video, recorded on July 10 and launched on social media late on Saturday, reveals three armed troopers utilizing the pepper spray towards the Palestinians on the Israeli and United States-backed GHF assist level.
The GHF safety personnel fired pepper spray at Palestinians who went to obtain assist in Al Shakoush space in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. 10/7/2025 pic.twitter.com/uZbhyoMgdM
— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) July 19, 2025
Males, girls and kids could possibly be seen operating in all instructions away from the troopers – some protecting their mouths with their garments, others frantically dashing to go away the scene with baggage of flour hoisted on their backs.
Because the GHF began working in Gaza in late Might, at the least 891 folks have been killed whereas making an attempt to get meals, the Palestinian Ministry of Well being mentioned on Saturday.
A July 15 report by the United Nations discovered that at the least 674 of these folks had been killed “within the neighborhood of GHF websites”.
The extremely criticised assist operation has successfully sidelined Gaza’s huge UN-led assist supply community after Israel eased a greater than two-month whole blockade on the enclave.
The video of Palestinians being pepper-sprayed got here as Israel’s genocidal battle in Gaza noticed at the least 54 extra Palestinians killed on Sunday, 51 of them assist seekers, till 10:30 GMT on Sunday.
On Saturday, 116 Palestinians had been killed throughout the enclave, together with at the least 38 assist seekers.
Mahmoud Mokeimar, a Palestinian in Gaza, mentioned he was strolling with a crowd of individuals, largely younger males, in the direction of the GHF hub when Israeli troops fired warning photographs and shortly opened hearth.
“The occupation opened hearth at us indiscriminately,” he instructed The Related Press information company.
Mokeimar mentioned he noticed at the least three immobile our bodies on the bottom and plenty of wounded folks fleeing.
“Until Israel permits extra meals into Gaza, Palestinians haven’t any alternative however to threat their lives only for one thing to eat,” mentioned Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from Deir el-Balah in Gaza.
“Mother and father go to the GHF distribution websites to threat getting killed or depart their youngsters ravenous. There isn’t any possibility out there. All the pieces could be very costly.”
In the meantime, Palestinians, together with infants and toddlers, proceed to die from hunger throughout Gaza.
4-year-old Razan Abu Zaher died of problems from malnutrition and starvation, a supply at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza Metropolis instructed Al Jazeera on Sunday.
On Saturday, the director of al-Shifa Hospital mentioned two Palestinians had died of hunger, together with a 35-day-old toddler.
On Friday, the Well being Ministry mentioned ravenous Palestinians are arriving in hospital emergency departments throughout Gaza in “unprecedented numbers”, as Israel continues to severely prohibit entry to meals in Gaza and shoot folks looking for assist.
Israel’s battle on Gaza has killed at the least 58,765 folks and wounded 140,485 others. An estimated 1,139 folks had been killed in Israel through the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 assaults, and greater than 200 had been taken captive.