Males, ladies and youngsters seen operating in all instructions away from Israeli troopers attacking the determined support seekers.
Israeli navy personnel have pepper-sprayed determined and ravenous Palestinian support seekers at one of many distribution factors of the controversial support 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 support level.
The GHF safety personnel fired pepper spray at Palestinians who went to obtain support in Al Shakoush space in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. 10/7/2025 pic.twitter.com/uZbhyoMgdM
— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) July 19, 2025
Males, ladies and youngsters could possibly be seen operating in all instructions away from the troopers – some masking their mouths with their garments, others frantically speeding to go away the scene with baggage of flour hoisted on their backs.
Because the GHF began working in Gaza in late Might, no less than 891 individuals have been killed while trying to get food, the Palestinian Ministry of Well being stated on Saturday.
A July 15 report by the United Nations discovered that no less than 674 of these individuals had been killed “within the neighborhood of GHF websites”.
The highly criticised aid operation has successfully sidelined Gaza’s huge UN-led support 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 conflict in Gaza noticed no less than 54 extra Palestinians killed on Sunday, 51 of them support seekers, till 10:30 GMT on Sunday.
On Saturday, 116 Palestinians had been killed throughout the enclave, together with no less than 38 support seekers.
Mahmoud Mokeimar, a Palestinian in Gaza, stated he was strolling with a crowd of individuals, principally younger males, in direction of the GHF hub when Israeli troops fired warning pictures and shortly opened fireplace.
“The occupation opened fireplace at us indiscriminately,” he advised The Related Press information company.
Mokeimar stated he noticed no less than three immobile our bodies on the bottom and lots of wounded individuals fleeing.
“Until Israel permits extra meals into Gaza, Palestinians don’t have any alternative however to threat their lives only for one thing to eat,” stated 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 go away their youngsters ravenous. There isn’t a possibility out there. Every little thing may 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 advised Al Jazeera on Sunday.
On Saturday, the director of al-Shifa Hospital stated two Palestinians had died of hunger, together with a 35-day-old toddler.
On Friday, the Well being Ministry stated ravenous Palestinians are arriving in hospital emergency departments throughout Gaza in “unprecedented numbers”, as Israel continues to severely limit entry to meals in Gaza and shoot individuals in search of support.
Israel’s conflict on Gaza has killed no less than 58,765 individuals and wounded 140,485 others. An estimated 1,139 individuals had been killed in Israel throughout the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 assaults, and greater than 200 had been taken captive.
