Suffocation, stampede, death: tragedy in the Gazas auxiliary center | Israel-Palestine conflict news

Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 18-year-old Hani Hammad never thought that his daily search for flour was suffocated with him and kicked with feet.

On Wednesday morning, he left his tent in the Al-Mawasi area of the southern Gazas Khan Younis, where he was sold together with his seven siblings from Rafah and is on the way of a food sales point, which is strongly criticized by the USA.

“We went at dawn and stood under the thousands. [02:00 GMT]She [US staff and Israeli army] Signal to open the gate and people stormed forward, ”said Hani to Al Jazera.

“The gate was open, but the people were packed in a very tight corridor that led to it – only about seven meters wide,” he said, fighting to take his breath after snapping air in the Nasser Hospital and was hardly aware of it.

“I got into the crowd difficult. Suddenly the American guards began to spray pepper spray and shoot gas bombs, and people began to stomp through the corridor,” he added.

'I collapsed. They trampled my face. '

“I had the feeling that I would die. I couldn't go forward or backwards. I collapsed. My face and my side were kicked with feet. Nobody could pull me out. But God gave me a second chance,” said Hani.

He was unconscious in a tuk-tuk in Khan Younis into the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and initially placed some of the bodies, others from gunshot wounds next to the corpses of others who had died.

“I was unconscious, couldn't see or hear. I moved in and moved out. They put me next to the dead. I thought I was one of them.”

In the early Wednesday, 21 Palestinians were killed, including 15 by suffocating while trying to collect food aid.

The incident occurred near a goal managed by the GHF in the west of Khan Younis. According to reports, dozens of others were injured, some were still in the intensive care unit.

Hani is the oldest of eight siblings who live next to the tent of their uncle – their parents stay in Jordan, where they traveled to medical treatment just one month before the war.

“I have the feeling that I have a great burden. We have experienced the pressure of the expulsion and war without our parents and without help,” he said.

Although he recognizes that the GHF's attitude is a great daily risk for the help of the GHF, he adds: “Our intensive hunger urges me to go every day every day.”

“There is no other choice. I have no money to buy the overpriced goods available in the markets. My only way is to try my luck with auxiliary distributions,” says the young man.

“Every time there is a close experience.

“We are on how animals shot”

The 24 -year -old Mohammed Abedin is now in a hospital bed with a leg wound after going to the same auxiliary center in Khan Younis early Wednesday.

For the first time, he says, he decided to reverse after recognizing the danger of the audience.

The young man, a accounting student in the first year, arrived at the sales place around 3 a.m. (00:00 GMT), but noticed that things looked different. The same location had been closed for two days before it was reopened.

“We used to go from several access points and the entrance was wide. But this time we were sent by a long, narrow corridor that is fenced with metal,” he says.

“When the gates opened, everyone hurried forward and the people fell under their feet.”

Mohammed described a fearsome scene of people who were crushed against the metal barriers who screamed for help and snapped for air, were fired as pepper spray and gas bombs by American guards and quadcopters above.

“I stood near my cousin and watched. We decided not to go in because of the overwhelming numbers. I saw children scream, suffocated, caught men and young people. Nobody could withdraw forward or back.”

“The fenced corridor, in which gas bombs are depressed and people were pushed through, became a death trap,” he says.

Mohammed and his cousin tried to go, but when he thought he had made a clever choice, a quadcoptor shot him into the leg. His cousin was also injured.

“There are always random shots of quadcaptors, tanks or soldiers in the area. This time I was the unhappy,” he said. “But thank God, I survived.”

Mohammed forced the tragic situation of the Palestinians, which is trapped between hunger and death, to risk their life for food. He supports his displaced family of nine years, originally from Rafah and now protected in Al-Mawasi.

“We dream of eating bread every day. I go back almost every day for help and normally return with empty hands. But the days when I only brought a few kilos of flour home felt like 'an oath'. [a celebration] for my family. “

Mehl has the top priority for Mohammed, especially when Gaza besieged for four months, the borders and humanitarian and commercial goods sealed by Israel.

“Bread is what makes me risk death. There is no alternative,” he said, waiting for an operation in the Nasser Hospital to remove a ball from his leg. “Has the world not provided a safe channel for the delivery of aids?”

“There is no system, no organized relief, no police or un -intervention. We are shot like animals. If we do not die from hunger, we die in chaos and stamps.”

At the end of May 2025, the GHF started after an Israeli blockade that is still valid and prevented the entry of humanitarian aids.

According to the United Nations, at least 798 Palestinians have since been killed when they tried to achieve or receive help from the organization's sales points.

The widespread criticism is from UN organizations and rights that argue that the operation is politicized and endangers civilians. The UN has explained that the GHF operations violate humanitarian neutrality and naturally uncertain, emphasized by the hundreds of deaths at its locations.

“Either we return with flour or we don't return at all.”

The 43-year-old Ziad Masad Mansour, who was sold with his wife and six children from Central Gaza to Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis after her home was destroyed in the war, is another more often visitors to the auxiliary lines.

“I go there at 10 a.m. and sleep like thousands of others on the sand. We endure the dust and the humiliation,” said Mansour, who was wounded in the head on Wednesday.

“Sometimes I manage to get flour, sometimes a few cans. Sometimes I return with empty hands. I even help others to wear their bags in exchange for something.”

“Yesterday there was terrible repression: gas bombs, balls, and we were firmly packed in the narrow corridor. I tried to escape the swarm when I was shot in the head and lost awareness.”

Mansour is now recovering in the Nasser Hospital. “Today, more than 20 people died – for a bag of flour. What else is there to say?”