Survivors recount dodging drone attacks and gunfire in their desperate attempts to secure food

Like Squid Game. That is how residents describe it, invoking the dystopian TV show when recounting the lethal gauntlet that getting aid in famine-haunted Gaza has become.

“It’s a death race. The faster, the stronger, the luckier - they’re the ones who might survive, might reach the food,” said 30-year-old Mohammed al-Shaqra.

“It feels like we’re animals, racing for a box of supplies as if our lives depend on it. And they do.”

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