Before the war, 500 truckloads of supplies a day sustained Gaza's population. Since the October 7 attacks, right-wing activists have been vandalising aid convoys. A group of Israeli's is trying to stop them. DW’s Aya Ibrahim reports from the West Bank.
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00:00 These Israelis aren't going on a day trip.
00:05 They're on a mission.
00:07 They want to make sure that aid for Gaza makes it there safely.
00:12 But when they get to the junction, food is already scattered on the ground.
00:16 We've arrived at the site of an attack by Israeli extremists on an aid convoy meant
00:23 for starving civilians in Gaza.
00:26 And as you can see behind me, activists are now busy trying to save really what can be
00:30 saved from that food.
00:32 They're encouraged by the effect they've had.
00:36 Because we were here and we made the police come here as well, and we encouraged the police
00:41 to do whatever needed to stop them, we can see that only a few of the boxes were falling
00:47 down and most of the things in the truck continued to Gaza.
00:52 We've also seen the police try to come between the activists and the attackers who, even
00:57 as the police is standing right next to them, continue vandalizing the food as it lays on
01:02 the pavement.
01:03 They are full of hate right now and they are acting as if they don't care that people die
01:09 from anger.
01:10 This is not the country we want to be.
01:13 We are not leaving this checkpoint until the settlers will leave the area and we'll make
01:18 sure that all the trucks will go and bring food to Gaza.
01:23 The police officers on site refused to give us an interview on camera, but said that on
01:27 that day they arrested at least two people in connection with the attack whose aftermath
01:31 we witnessed.
01:32 A few days earlier, near this checkpoint, there was a violent attack on another aid
01:38 convoy.
01:40 Activists there said Israeli soldiers did nothing to stop the vandalism.
01:45 Extremist settlers have been waging attacks like these regularly in Israel.
01:49 A report by the Guardian newspaper even suggests that some members of state security tip off
01:55 attackers ahead of time about the location of aid convoys.
02:01 It was violence like that which inspired this group of activists to organize their solidarity
02:05 guard.
02:06 It's not only the question of what's going on in Gaza, it's a question of our society
02:12 and which kind of a society we're going to be.
02:14 Are we going to be a society that will allow hunger and famine and destruction and death
02:20 to be celebrated or are we going to stand against it and to say we are human, we are
02:27 fighting for our own humanity?
02:30 It's infuriating the fact that we need to be here.
02:34 We'll always find people that will be disruptive, but I'm a citizen of Israel, I'm also an American
02:41 citizen, as a human being.
02:44 Why are we not doing more?
02:46 It's happening in my name and it's for the government, for the police, for the army to
02:51 do everything possible.
02:55 Insults come thick and fast.
02:57 Nazis and Hamas, their fellow Israelis call them.
03:01 But they continue to try to get the food onto a truck and back towards Gaza.
03:08 By the end of the day, they told us all the trucks had gone through with little damage.
03:13 To them, a victory.
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