Scores of Khan Younis residents descend on Rafah for much-needed aid

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(25 Jun 2025)
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Khan Younis, Gaza - 25 June 2025
1. Various of people, some of them carrying bags of aid, walking back from Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Faris Abu Hashim, from Rafah:
"I am forced because of my children. There is no income. Sometimes I come back with this, and other times I come back with barely a bag of flour. This is our life. We run and walk two or four kilometers (2.5mi) until I come back with a bag of flour or a bottle of oil."
3. Various of people returning from distribution point
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Raed Abu Farhan, displaced from east of Khan Younis:
"We hope that these points will be closed, because these are death points. You will either be returned as injured or killed. It is all risky and deadly. We hope that everyone will close all these points, and that we will return to distribution through foreign organizations."
5. Various of people carrying bags of aid and walking back
STORYLINE:
Scores of Palestinians in Khan Younis returned on Wednesday after a long wait to receive aid in the southern city of Rafah from the American-led group the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Some expressed frustration at the chaos, lack of aid, and shooting incidents that appear be taking place when they gather at dawn.

Faris Abu Hashim walked a long journey to help secure some food for his children, only to return with nothing but a bag of flour.

“We run and walk two or four kilometers (2.5mi) until I come back with a bag of flour or a bottle of oil,” he said.

Raed Abu Farhan who had returned empty-handed said that the current system run by the Israeli-backed organization is not effective, adding that aid distribution led United Nations agencies was far more effective and safer for Palestinians.

Decrying the shooting incidents and stampedes, he called the collection points “death points.”

“You’re likely returning either wounded or killed,” he said.

AP Video shot by Abdel Kareem Hana and Production by Wafaa Shurafa

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