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Video shows crowds in Gaza scale fence to rush for aid

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Footage shared online shows hundreds of Palestinians climbing over a large mound of dirt - with some seen scaling a metal fence - as they rush to enter an aid site in Gaza run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

Palestinians are first seen waiting behind a fence, before a voice, off-camera, with an American accent shouts instructions.

People are then seen entering the site and running towards what is assumed to be aid.

BBC Verify has geolocated the video to the SDS1 distribution site, west of Rafah. It is said to have been filmed on Tuesday.

The GHF is a new, controversial group backed by the US and Israel that aims to bypass the UN as the main supplier of aid to Palestinians.

The UN and other aid groups refuse to co-operate with the new system, saying it contravenes the humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality, and independence.

The GHF have been approached for comment.

The video was shared by Alon Lee-Green, an Israeli anti-war activist, who said he had obtained it from an employee of "the American company in Gaza".

It was unclear if this referred to the GHF or one of the private security contractors that staff its aid sites.

Green described the scene as "apocalyptic" in a post on X.

"But this is not a disaster movie, but the hell we created in Gaza," he wrote. "This is what starving people look like, rushing for food while risking their lives. This is what the dehumanization of millions of people looks like."

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