Desperation, Fight For Survival: Satellite Image Shows Starving Gazans Swarming Aid Trucks

Last Updated:August 01, 2025, 14:04 IST

A satellite image shows thousands of Palestinians around aid trucks in Gaza, highlighting the severe humanitarian crisis. Conditions are catastrophic, with malnutrition rampant.

Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen, in Gaza City, on July 26, 2025. (Image: AP/ file photo)

As human suffering continues in Gaza amid conflict with Israel, a recent satellite image captured by US geospatial firm Planet Labs shows a harrowing scene in the war-torn strip. The image shows thousands of Gazans surrounding aid trucks, desperate for basic food supplies like flour, according to a report in India Today.

At first glance, the mass of people resembles a colony of ants — but in reality, it reflects one of the gravest humanitarian crises that the millennial and Gen Z generations have experienced so far.

Shot near the Morag corridor, an Israeli military partition dividing the southern cities of Khan Younis and Rafah, the image was geolocated by open-source analyst Jaks Godin. The pic reveals a line of aid seekers stretching nearly 2 km north toward Khan Younis, underlining the overwhelming desperation at food distribution points.

‘25% Kids, Pregnant Women Malnourished In Gaza’

Conditions in the besieged strip have reached catastrophic levels. Charity Doctors Without Borders reports that 25 per cent of young children and pregnant women are malnourished. The organization has accused Israel of using starvation as a weapon and condemned the deadly violence at aid sites.

UNICEF has voiced similar concerns. With severe food shortages, children are resorting to searching for food from garbage piles.

“Children are dead, pale, turning to skeletons, only bones. They forgot what eggs, meat and fruits are. The men are all without jobs. There is nothing to live by. Life here is completely lost," Reuters quoted a Gaza woman, mother of three, as saying. She also lamented the lack of fuel to cook food.

As the crisis continues to hit people hardest, adults return from food queues humiliated and injured.

Access to aid remains severely limited. Israel has heavily restricted food truck entries, prompting several nations to airdrop supplies — a method Gazans say is chaotic and inefficient.

In one such instance, a package landed on a rooftop, inciting a mob, said a Gazan man.

Tragically, aid distribution has also turned deadly. The Gaza Health Ministry claims over 600 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food at sites managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is supported by the US and Israel. A Sky News analysis linked spikes in civilian deaths to GHF aid distributions, often announced with less than 30 minutes’ notice.

As famine tightens its grip on Gaza, the images and testimonies reveal a population pushed to the edge — battling not just hunger, but violence, humiliation, and despair.

Manisha Roy

Manisha Roy is a Senior Sub-Editor at News18.com's general desk. She comes with an experience of over 5 years in media industry. She covers politics and other hard news. She can be contacted at Manisha.Roy@nw18...Read More

Manisha Roy is a Senior Sub-Editor at News18.com's general desk. She comes with an experience of over 5 years in media industry. She covers politics and other hard news. She can be contacted at Manisha.Roy@nw18...

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August 01, 2025, 14:04 IST

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