STORY: Large crowds of Palestinians gathered on Monday (August 4) around trucks in Gaza’s Khan Younis, with people grabbing bags and boxes of aid supplies.

Aid seeker, Youssef Abu Mor, said the aid entering the Gaza Strip was not enough.

Palestinian and U.N. officials say Gaza needs around 600 aid trucks to enter per day to meet the humanitarian requirements - the number Israel used to allow into Gaza before the war.

Israel says it will allow gradual and controlled entry of goods to Gaza through local merchants, an Israeli military agency that coordinates aid said on Tuesday (August 5), as global monitors say famine is unfolding in the enclave, impacting the hostages Hamas holds.

Israel's COGAT said a mechanism has been approved by the cabinet to expand the scope of humanitarian aid, allowing the entry of supplies to Gaza through the private sector.

The agency said the approved goods include basic food products, baby food, fruits and vegetables, and hygiene supplies.

It was unclear how this aid operation would work given the widespread destruction in Gaza.

Israel in response to a rising international uproar, announced last week steps to let more aid reach Gaza, including pausing fighting for part of the day in some areas, approving air drops and announcing protected routes for aid convoys.

Hamas said it was prepared to coordinate with the Red Cross to deliver aid to hostages it holds in Gaza, if Israel permanently opens humanitarian corridors and halts airstrikes during the distribution of aid.

The war in Gaza began when Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostage in an attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, according to Israeli figures.

Israel's offensive has since killed more than 60,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health officials who do not distinguish between fighters and non-combatants.

According to Israeli officials, 50 hostages now remain in Gaza, only 20 of whom are believed to be alive. Hamas, thus far, has barred humanitarian organizations from having any kind of access to the hostages and families have little or no details of their conditions.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

VIDEO SHOWS: PALESTINIANS TAKING AID OF TRUCKS IN GAZA'S KHAN YOUNIS / CROWDS OF PEOPLE SURROUNDING TRUCKS AND ON THEM / SOUNDBITES FROM AID SEEKERS

RESENDING WITH FULL SCRIPT.

SHOWS: KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA (AUGUST 4, 2025) (REUTERS – ACCESS ALL)

1. VARIOUS OF CROWDS OF PALESTINIANS CLIMBING ONTO TRUCKS CARRYING AID SUPPLIES / PEOPLE GATHERING AROUND TRUCKS

2. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS CARRYING BAGS AND BOXES OF AID / PEOPLE CLIMBING ONTO TRUCKS

3. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DISPLACED PALESTINIAN FROM RAFAH, YOUSSEF ABU MOR, SAYING:

“They are providing us (with aid) in drops. It is true that the trucks pass (enter), but it is not enough, it is really not enough, people are hungry. For me, it has been two and a half weeks, I swear, I have not left with a single bag from here... What good is it for me if the truck passes on my foot? I call upon them to secure the aid.”

4. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS ON TRUCKS / PEOPLE IN FRONT OF TRUCK, AS TRUCK MOVES THROUGH CROWD

5. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DISPLACED PALESTINIAN FROM RAFAH, YOUSSEF ABU MOR, SAYING:

“I want a bag of flour for my children; I should not be forced to walk 7 km. It has been two and a half weeks that I come (to get aid) and I don’t get anything, really nothing. Every two hours, there are two trucks, two trucks. These two trucks won't be enough for all these people that you see. I ask that they provide us with an international organisation that (distributes aid) in a respectful way. Because this is called humiliation and blood aid.”

6. CROWD OF PALESTINIANS ON AND AROUND TRUCK CARRYING AID

7. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS CARRYING BOXES AND BAGS OF AID / MAN GESTURING VICTORY SIGN

8. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN MAN CARRYING AID BOX, MOHAMMED SHAHEEN, SAYING:

“You go under death, under the bullets, under the tanks so you can live, so you think about surviving.”

9. MAN CARRYING AID BOX

10. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS ON TRUCKS CARRYING AID

11. PALESTINIANS CARRYING AID BOXES ON A WOODEN PLAQUE

12. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DISPLACED PALESTINIAN, ABDUL RAHMAN ABU ODEH, SAYING:

“We are hungry people, dead people, we walk in death, we came to death, we want to eat. All we want is to have (aid) through agency (UNRWA) and the United Nations... it doesn’t work this way, we want to eat like human beings.”

13. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS GATHERING AROUND TRUCKS / PEOPLE STANDING ON TRUCKS CARRYING AID

14. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DISPLACED PALESTINIAN, TALAAT NAJJAR, 60, SAYING:

“There is severe hunger, but there are people who cannot come here. One person was forced to come here; we have two injured and one martyr. How should I come here? I came to take anything I can find to eat.”

15. PALESTINIANS CARRYING AID

16 VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS RUSHING ON AID TRUCKS