Each day in Gaza, thousands of men tormented by hunger crowd the roads taken by humanitarian aid trucks. They sometimes wait up to 10 hours under the sun, hoping to intercept a truck loaded with food.

Islam Abou Ghassan, age 35, is one of them. "As soon as the trucks arrive, we rush at them as fast as we can. There can be 10,000 people for four trucks! We try to get something to eat for our families and sell the rest, hoping to make between 100 and 200 shekels [about €26 to €52] to cover our daily expenses," the father of seven told Le Monde by phone from the enclave, which Israel has banned foreign journalists from entering for almost two years.

Every day, the same wild scramble unfolds. Ghassan endures this ordeal because he has no other means to feed his family. "Hunger has turned people into wild beasts. They shove and hit each other, some are run over by the trucks or dragged on the ground, clinging to a sack of flour. And those who manage to grab something sometimes end up wounded by Israeli snipers who shoot them in the legs. It's carnage, and it's intentional by Israel," said the 30-something, who is convinced that Israel forces the trucks to take dangerous routes so they do not reach the warehouses of humanitarian organizations.

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