“In Gaza, we are born to die”: a day in the life of an aid seekerPhoto by author, 19 January 2025, of exhausted Palestinians returning to their destroyed homes in Northern Gaza. Since June 2025, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation had been claiming to distribute aid to the people of Gaza. To increase our chances of securing aid, Ismail, Abdulrahman, Foaud, and I followed some people who were from Rafah, trying to get near to the GHF distribution point. Half an hour later, we saw a water truck that was being refilled and was about to leave. My father told me to never even think of going to any of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites ever again.