Videos Show Gazans Receiving Few Aid Bottles Thrown Into Sea From Egypt
Gaza: As a symbolic move, desperate people in Egypt recently initiated an endeavour, throwing aid bottles into the sea to reach starving Palestinians in Gaza. The action has purportedly found fruit as some of the bottles reached the Gaza shore amid the acute starvation in Gaza, caused by the total blockade of aid by Israeli forces amid an intense bombing campaign, leaving many die from starvation, in addition to the injuries caused by the military offensive.
Videos circulating on social media showed starving Palestinians in Gaza receiving some of the bottles that people in North Africa, including Egypt, thrown at sea, hoping to reach the besieged strip.
Third bottle arrived in Gaza:
Thank you to the Egyptian people who sent #BottlesToGaza:
Keep sending your #1MillionBottlesForGaza pic.twitter.com/EklnAzm3hR
— Parwiz Hamidi _🇵🇸 (@Palestine001_) July 29, 2025
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Videos showed the bottles filled with food, including grains, rice, lentils, and other dry food items reaching the Gaza shore, and starving Palestinians taking them, expressing gratitude to the people who sent the aid.
The initiative, named “From Sea to Sea – a Bottle of Hope for Gaza,” has drawn global attention, is a show of desperate symbolic support amid crushing starvation in Gaza due to the total blockade imposed by Israel, even after exhaustion following the 22-month-long Israeli offensive and blockage.
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Though a symbolic move, the endeavour was the brainchild of an Egyptian academic and engineer based in Japan who claimed that the aid can be delivered to Gaza via sea. Proposing the project, he argued that with an applicable method that a tightly sealed 25-liter plastic jerrycan can hold approximately six to eight kilograms of food, leaving an air gap of around eight liters to ensure buoyancy. He said the aid bottles should be released at least four kilometers from the coast, at a 60-degree angle to the northeast, to bypass opposing currents, helping them reach the shores of Gaza within 72–96 hours.
Recently, due to the mounting international pressure, Israel allowed limited aid into the war-ravaged strip, with planes from Egypt, Jordan, and the UAE airdropping food in Gaza.
The development occurred after videos and photos of malnourished children, with bones coming out, due to extreme poverty, struck consciousness of the world, pressurising Israel to act.
Third bottle arrived in Gaza:
Thank you to the Egyptian people who sent #BottlesToGaza:
Keep sending your #1MillionBottlesForGaza pic.twitter.com/EklnAzm3hR
— Parwiz Hamidi _🇵🇸 (@Palestine001_) July 29, 2025
