How Seeking Food in Gaza Has Become So Deadly

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The suffering in Gaza has reached new depths, and now finding food, which was already scarce, has become a deadly endeavor. Israeli forces have opened fire on crowds of desperate and hungry people who were trying to reach aid sites established by a new and controversial humanitarian group. Hundreds of people have been killed, according to Gaza health officials. Aaron Boxerman, who covers Gaza for The Times, explains who is behind the distribution system and why it has been so deadly.

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0:00.0	Well, this is Gada al-Card from Gaza.
0:05.0	We are really starving.
0:09.0	Honestly, there is nothing to be eaten here in Gaza.
0:13.0	I'm not eating anything.
0:19.0	We are losing too much weight.
0:22.2	For me, maybe we are lost more than 10 kilos now,
0:24.8	and my bones, you can see my bones now.
0:28.3	Soon I'll be a skeleton.
0:33.1	It's very hard.
0:34.9	I couldn't imagine in my life that I'll be in this situation, like starting in 2025.
0:48.0	From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is the Daily.
0:55.0	The suffering in Gaza has reached new depths.
0:58.6	And now finding food, which was already scarce, has become a deadly endeavor.
1:04.8	Israeli forces have opened fire on crowds of desperate, hungry people who are trying
1:09.6	to access aid sites
1:10.8	established by a new and controversial humanitarian group.
1:14.9	Hundreds of people have been killed,
1:16.9	according to Gaza health officials.
1:19.4	Today, my colleague Aaron Boxerman
1:21.9	on who is behind the distribution system
1:24.7	and why it's been so deadly.
1:28.5	It's Thursday, July 24th.
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