Starving Gazans scramble for aid drops to scrounge a can of food

A heartbreaking scene in Gaza City as desperate residents fight for food aid amid war devastation.

A military plane banked over the war-ravaged ruins of Gaza City dropping dozens of black parachutes carrying food aid.

On the ground, where almost no building within sight was still standing, hungry men and boys raced towards the beach where most of the aid seemed to have landed.

Dozens of them jostled intensely to get to the food, with scrums forming up and down the rubble-strewn dunes.

“People are dying just to get a can of tuna,” said Mohamad al-Sabaawi, carrying an almost empty bag on his shoulder, a young boy beside him.

“The situation is tragic as if we are in a famine. What can we do? They mock us by giving us a small can of tuna.”

Returning home to Gaza City with little to keep his family going, another Palestinian man said their situation was miserable.

“We are the people of Gaza, waiting for aid drops, willing to die to get a can of beans — which we then share among 18 people,” he said.