‘We keep hearing about aid coming in, but we never see any of it’published at 10:27 British Summer Time
10:27 BST
Rushdi Abualouf
Gaza correspondent, reporting from Istanbul
Some
Palestinians in Gaza are telling the BBC they have not eaten in two days,
accusing armed gangs of looting incoming aid trucks and selling the contents on
the black market at high prices.
Bakr Salah, 35, who is a nurse at Al-Shifa Hospital and father of two, describes a desperate scene in
Gaza City.
“Yesterday
they airdropped a very small amount of aid in our area,” he says.
“Thousands of
people fought over it. Honestly, what was dropped wouldn’t feed half a
neighbourhood.”
“My children
are starving, they have not eaten a single meal for two days. We keep hearing
about aid coming in, but we never see any of it,” he adds.
In the
southern city of Khan Younis, Bilal Atallah, 45, a father of five, says he spent
the entire day waiting for food.
“I had no
choice but to buy flour from the looters who had stolen it from aid trucks,” he
says. “It cost me $35 for one kilogram of flour.”
His account
echoes those of many others across Gaza, where organised criminal groups
reportedly intercept aid convoys and resell basic supplies such as flour and
canned goods at prices most families cannot afford.