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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>Piles of dead bodies and wounded people. That is all 18 year-old Mohammad al-Ewadi could see around him.</p>
<p>He was among thousands of starving Palestinians heading towards the al-Sudaniya area in northwestern Gaza City on Sunday morning. </p>
<p>There, trucks from the World Food Programme (WFP) were expected to arrive, offering a rare chance to access long-denied essential supplies.</p>
<p>But as people gathered near the truck, Israeli troops surrounded relief-seekers, directly and indiscriminately shooting towards them, according to eyewitnesses, among them Ewadi.</p>
<p>"They [the Israeli army] fired heavily at us from the tanks," he told Middle East Eye, describing how military vehicles moved through the crowd, at times passing within inches of civilians.</p>
<p>"There are now piles of martyrs. It was chaos... the scenes were grotesque, truly grotesque." "People were being shot from all directions. If someone next to you was hit, you couldn’t help them. You just wanted to hide, in that moment, saving yourself becomes the only thing that matters."</p>
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<figcaption>Piles of dead bodies and wounded people surrounded him, recalls 18 year-old Mohammad al-Ewadi during Israel's attack on relief-seeking Palestinians on Sunday (MEE/Mohammed al-Hajjar)</figcaption>
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