'I came to get a sack of flour… a sardine tin or anything' : Aid site attack witnesses

Mahmoud Ismael was one of the desperate Palestinian aid seekers who gathered outside the GHF-run Rafah aid distribution point before Israeli quadcopters and tanks fired on them. He had walked miles on crutches to get there.

“I came to get a sack of flour… a sardine tin or anything,” he told AFP.

“There is no food in my house, and I can’t get food for my children,” he said.

Sameh Hamuda walked from Gaza City and spent the night with relatives in a tent near Rafah before heading to the aid point.

“They began distributing aid, but suddenly quadcopter drones opened fire on the people, and tanks started shooting heavily. Several people were killed right in front of me,” he told the AFP news agency.

“I ran and survived. Death follows you as long as you’re in Gaza.”

" I don’t understand why they call people to the aid centres and then open fire on them,” he said. “What are we supposed to do?” Abdullah Barbakh said.