For two days, Ramez Jendiya’s wife and five children heard nothing from him after he left to collect a food package from a US-backed aid distribution point in central Gaza.
After dozens of failed attempts to reach him from her makeshift tent in Palestine Stadium in Gaza City, his wife finally received the news: he had been killed near the aid distribution point.
“On Friday, he told his wife he was going to collect aid after they ran out of food. He didn’t usually take his phone with him, but she expected him to be late because this was his third or fourth attempt and he came back late every time,” Ahmed Jendiya, his brother-in-law, told Middle East Eye.
“She waited for him late into the night, but when he didn’t return, she grew anxious. She tried calling the men who usually went with him, but none answered. She couldn’t sleep for two days, desperately trying to reach him or find out anything about his fate, especially after hearing that people had been killed near the distribution point.”
On Saturday evening, Jendiya’s relatives travelled to central Gaza, planning to spend the night so they could begin searching near the aid distribution site early the next morning.
