'It all leads to death': Chaotic rush to Gaza airdrop landing site shows their dangers

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(4 Aug 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Zawaida, Gaza Strip - 4 August 2025 1. Various of people waiting for airdrop of aid 2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rabah Rabah, a Palestinian man from Deir al-Balah: "One day we get (aid) and ten days we don't. Even when we do manage to get it, we take only some things, because what falls is not enough for the young, the elderly, or anyone. I wish they would deliver it (aid) enters through the crossing. This is not a humane practice, this is a way of humiliation and insult. Bring them with security through the crossing for international organization, in a correct, respectful, and sound manner. It is better than all this humiliation." 3. Various of Rabah looking at plane flying over central Gaza Strip 4. Various of plane dropping aid over central Gaza Strip 5. Various of hundreds of people running toward aid 6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Assad al-Qaraan, a Palestinian man from Deir al-Balah: "It is dangerous, full of death, and it's all humiliation. Just 30% of people are able to receive aid and the rest do not receive anything. What follows is infighting and stabbing. Thank them for bringing aid, but this aid is full of danger and death. It all leads to death." 7. Two men fighting for box of aid 8. Various of people fighting to get aid 9. Various of people carrying injured man and placing him in car 10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yusuf Fleifel, Palestinian from Deir al-Balah: "What happened was as follows: We were waiting for the airdrop, the aid landed on the tent and person inside looked to be killed, God knows. The man went to the hospital, God knows if he was a martyr or injured." 11. Various of people carrying what they got from aid 12. Man carrying box of aid saying (Arabic): "This aid bring death to people" 13. Various of planes dropping aid STORYLINE: Airdropped aid continues to fall in the central Gaza Strip Monday with desperate Palestinians struggling to collect what they could as food parcels land in far areas or in the so-called red zones controlled by the Israeli military. Palestinians cheered when they saw a plane flying over the central town of Zawaida and dropping aid parcels. Associated Press footage showed parachutes, carrying aid, opening in air. When aid fell to the ground, hundreds of Palestinians rushed to collect whatever they could. Many criticized the practice as shameful and humiliating. “I wish they deliver it (aid) through the crossings,” Rabah Rabah, a Palestinian man from the al-Balah, said as he waited for the airdropping of aid. “This is not a human practice.” Infighting often erupts among people trying to chase the airdropped aid. AP footage showed a man with a knife trying to seize a package of aid from another man, with a woman screaming: “Shame on you.” Others were seen engaged in fistfighting around a parcel of aid. Assad al-Qaraan, a man from Deir al-Balah, slammed the airdropping of aid as ineffective. He said most people didn’t get food. “It is dangerous,” he said, “all of it is humiliation.” One parcel fell over a tent sheltering displaced people, said eyewitness Ahmed Fleifel, a young man from Deir al-Balah. At least one person was wounded, and taken to hospital in a private vehicle, according to AP footage. AP production by Wafaa Shurafa =========================================================== Clients are reminded to adhere to all listed restrictions and to check the terms of their licence agreements. For further assistance, please contact the AP Archive on: Tel +44(0)2074827482 Email: [email protected]. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/5df160b721ed4aa2ae30224db976490d