“She wanted to fill the bag with food, and it came back filled with my mother’s blood.”
Reem Zaidan was fatally shot by an Israeli sniper on June 3 while waiting for humanitarian aid near the Rafah border crossing. Her daughter, Misfit Zaidan, shares the harrowing moments of that day.
Israel has been accused of using hunger as a weapon of war, systematically restricting humanitarian aid and targeting civilians at aid distribution points in Gaza.