Palestinians in Gaza’s Khan Younis streamed into a hospital on Friday (May 23), some carrying the covered bodies of their loved ones, after several were killed in Israeli strikes according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The Israeli military said 107 trucks carrying flour and other foodstuffs as well as medical supplies entered the Gaza Strip from the Kerem Shalom crossing point on Thursday. But getting the supplies to people sheltering in tents and other makeshift accommodation has been fitful.

A Palestinian woman at the hospital said her son was killed while attempting to get bread, after hearing that some aid trucks had entered.

“One of his relatives was going to get hit by a truck. He went to pull him (help him) but another truck ran him over,” she explained.

Flour and other aid started reaching some of Gaza's most vulnerable areas on Thursday (May 22) after Israel let some trucks through, but nowhere near enough to make up for shortages caused by an 11-week blockade, Palestinian officials said.

Israel imposed the blockade on all supplies in March, saying Hamas was seizing deliveries for its fighters - a charge the group denies. The UN has said a quarter of Gaza's 2.3 million people are at risk of famine.

Israel has repeatedly defended its controls on aid in Gaza, saying reports from aid groups of famine-like conditions were exaggerated and denying accusations of causing starvation.

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Gazans mourn loved ones killed in Israeli strikes, as mother laments son killed while getting aid

VIDEO SHOWS: PALESTINIANS CARRYING BODIES OF PEOPLE KILLED IN STRIKE/MOTHER MOURNS SON KILLED WHILE ATTEMPTING TO GET AID / SCENES FROM FUNERAL / COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE AT HOSPITAL

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SHOWS: KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA (MAY 23, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all)

1. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS GATHERED AT HOSPITAL, CARRYING COVERED BODIES OF PEOPLE KILLED IN ISRAELI STRIKES

2. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN CRYING / BODY ON THE GROUND

3. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN RELATIVE OF PEOPLE KILLED IN STRIKE, SUZAN ABU DAKKAH, SAYING:

"What is his fault? He was 12 years old. What is his fault? What did he do to them? How did he hurt them? A child, defenceless, sitting in his tent. What is his fault? A missile, a drone missile. He did not do anything. There was nothing on him. An innocent child, deprived of his childhood. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs."

4. PEOPLE CARRYING BODY/PEOPLE GATHERED, CRYING

5. WOMEN AND CHILDREN CRYING

6. PALESTINIAN WOMAN, CRYING AND SAYING (Arabic): ‘Look how the children are torn apart. Look at how we are dying. Look how we are suffering.’

7. PALESTINIANS PERFORMING FUNERAL PRAYERS/COVERED BODIES ON THE GROUND

8. VARIOUS OF CHILD PRAYING

9. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN RELATIVE OF ONE OF THE PEOPLE KILLED, MOHAMMED ABU DAKKAH, SAYING:

"There is no food. There is no drink. Why is that? They sent us drops, crumbs of flour, not enough for one percent of the (need of these) afflicted people who want to eat. This one wanted to eat.”

10. WOMAN CRYING/ MEN CARRYING COVERED BODY

11. VARIOUS OF MEN CARRYING BODY IN BODY BAG, WOMAN CRYING

12. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN WOMAN, WHOSE SON WAS KILLED WHILE COLLECTING AID, UMM (MOTHER OF) MOHAMMED, SAYING:

“He had left before sunset. I was waiting for him. He had gone to get a stack of bread and come back. He said to me, ‘I am on my way back.’ I don't know who told him there that are (aid) trucks. One of his relatives was going to get hit by a truck. He went to pull him (help him) but another truck ran him over, he flew off, and he fell on his head, his head split.”

13. WOMEN CRYING

14. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN WOMAN, WHOSE SON WAS KILLED WHILE COLLECTING AID, UMM (MOTHER OF) MOHAMMED, SAYING:

"From the hunger, he ate dried milk, he ate dried milk."

15. CHILDREN CRYING

16. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) PALESTINIAN WOMAN, WHOSE SON WAS KILLED WHILE COLLECTING AID, UMM (MOTHER OF) MOHAMMED, SAYING:

" We are eleven people, and we can't feed them. He would buy from here and there to feed them, and I wish he hadn't gone. I wish he hadn't gone. We don't want flour."

17. VARIOUS OF MEN AND MOTHER CARRYING COVERED BODY