Al Jazeera’s Maram Humaid reports on the abject conditions facing Palestinians in Gaza.

“My last two trips north brought me face-to-face with the ‘aid seekers’,” the reporter said.

That harsh label has dominated news headlines recently, but witnessing their journey up close defies all imagination. It belongs to another world entirely, Humaid added.

“On June 6, to fulfil my daughter Banias’s Eid wish to see her grandfather, we boarded a tuk-tuk as evening fell. Near the western edge of what people in Gaza call al-Shari al-Jadeed (the new road), the 7km Netzarim Corridor, which the Israeli army built to bisect the enclave, I saw hundreds of people on sand dunes on both sides of the street,” the reporter continued.

Some had lit fires and gathered around them. It’s a barren, ghostly stretch of sand and rubble-filled with the living shadows of Gaza’s most desperate.

“I started filming with my phone as the other passengers explained that these ‘aid seekers’ were waiting to intercept aid trucks and grab whatever they could,” they said.

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