00:00Welcome back. The controversial US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, known as the GHF, has confirmed its suspended operations in Gaza after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect last Friday.
00:15The operation has been mired in controversy, with the UN saying almost 1,400 people have been shot dead near GHF aid sites since May.
00:24We've been hearing from a British doctor who spent two weeks in Nassau Hospital in August. He told us that a quarter of his trauma cases were children with bullet wounds who alleged they were shot around those aid sites. Ruby Gleeson has this report.
00:40This is Abdullah. He's 13 years old. He's being treated for a double gunshot injury by Dr Saladin Sawan, a British doctor volunteering in Gaza. The wards are at full capacity, so he's recovering in the corridors. Abdullah says he was shot twice while collecting food from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, or GHF.
01:06I went to get aid with my cousins, but they got separated from me. There was flower on the ground, there was a lady who bent down. I bent down along with her. I was just about to get up when I was shot, and while I was crawling, I was shot again.
01:25So you had the first gunshot here?
01:28Yes, here.
01:29And while you were crawling, you were shot a second time?
01:33Yes. 70 metres, nobody noticed me. Everybody was busy picking up sacks and running away.
01:40He says it happened whilst trying to collect aid from one of these GHF aid points. Families desperately seeking aid walked for kilometres to get here. This is what hungry Gazans have needed to do to access food since May, amid the chaos, gunfire.
01:59The GHF, backed by the U.S. and Israel, have been distributing aid in Gaza since May, replacing hundreds of aid points run by the UN with only four sites.
02:14Nearly 1,400 people have been killed trying to reach aid from those sites. That's according to the UN, who described the aid sites as a death trap.
02:23The GHF have, in the past, admitted to firing warning shots to disperse crowds. This is what they said in July.
02:34Warning shots are directed upwards, in the air, and towards the coastline, not towards folks seeking aid.
02:43The GHF insists that no aid seeker has ever been shot at or killed at any of their distribution centres.
02:49We asked them specifically about Abdullah's claims that he survived being shot at one of their sites.
02:54They said it was a completely false allegation.
02:57And they also said that people don't bend down to pick up flour at their sites because they are in boxes.
03:03The BBC understands that flour often gets transferred from boxes into sacks to take it from the sites.
03:10For 17-year-old Fatih, it's a different story.
03:13His father says he was shot by the Israeli military.
03:16My son Fatih, on his first day, his first time out collecting aid, he was shot by a tank.
03:23The billet went into his pelvis.
03:26The eldest of five, he told his father to stay home, insisting he would go himself.
03:33My son Fatih said to me, Dad, you are too old.
03:36You cannot carry a bag of flour on your shoulder.
03:39I am young.
03:40I can carry and bring it back to my siblings.
03:42Don't go out.
03:43Stay in the tent.
03:44So probably the bullet came from somewhere here.
03:49It went through the spoon, broke it into pieces, and went right across all the organs in the pelvis.
03:56What began as a trip to collect aid for his family ended in his death.
04:00He didn't survive the operation.
04:03In the two weeks Dr Saladin Sawan spent at Nasser Hospital,
04:07children with bullet injuries formed a quarter of his trauma caseload.
04:10All of them allege they were collecting aid from GHF sites.
04:16The IDF told us they prohibit deliberate attacks on civilians approaching aid sites.
04:20They also say they are examining reports of such incidents, and further action will be taken as necessary.
04:25The GHF has told the BBC it is not currently operating in Gaza, but hopes to resume its operations soon.
04:34This is what is left of one of their four aid sites.
04:37The question remains, how will aid be distributed in Gaza, and who will ensure that it's done safely?
04:43Well, this time last week we were, of course, marking the beginning of the ceasefire in Gaza.
04:53The brief euphoria that greeted the return of the living hostages and the Palestinian prisoners
04:57has given way already to the grim realities of the situation on the ground.
05:02Israel is still waiting for the return of 19 dead hostages.
05:05Hamas says it is working in good faith to find them, but simultaneously is exercising brutal control
05:12over those areas from which the Israelis withdrew.
05:15Our Middle East correspondent Yolan Nell has more from Jerusalem.
05:19This is still very much the focus of Israeli media.
05:22The failure of Hamas to return all of the 19 remaining bodies belonging to Israel's hostages.
05:30And there are quotes of Israeli defense officials who say that they do believe that Hamas does have access to more of these bodies.
05:37The latest statement from Hamas that came out said that it was committed to the ceasefire and its implementation
05:44and was keen to return these hostages' bodies.
05:48But it said that some corpses were underground in tunnels that had been destroyed by Israel.
05:53Others were under rubble in buildings that Israel had bombed and then demolished.
06:00And it was saying there's really a shortage of this heavy lifting equipment.
06:03Now we know that Hamas is under a lot of pressure from the mediators to act on this.
06:08They don't want to see this endangering the ceasefire deal.
06:12There was what Al Jazeera called some exclusive footage that it showed overnight
06:17where you could see what appeared to be Hamas gunmen guarding a couple of bulldozers
06:23in Khan Yunus in the south of the Gaza Strip, apparently looking for hostages' bodies there.
06:30From what we know, there are exact locations and aerial photographs that have been handed over to the mediators by Hamas.
06:40Now this was a subject for the Israeli Prime Minister when he was meeting his security cabinet last night.
06:44And then we know that afterwards he updated President Trump by phone.
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