Hundreds of Palestinians stormed a United Nations food warehouse in the center of Gaza on Wednesday, shouting and pushing each other and snatching pieces from the building to enter, said the UN. Managers of the Palestinian hospital said that four people died in chaos, two of whom fired.
Israel accused the terrorist group of the fire opening of the fire. There were no Israeli troops in or near the Way of the United Nations World Food Program at the time, and the FDI not operating in Deir Al-Balah.
“Hordes of hungry people have burst into the Al-Ghafari warehouse of PAM in Deir Al-Balah, Central Gaza, in search of pre-positioned food supplies for distribution,” said the UN global food program in a press release on X.
“The first reports indicate that two people died and several were injured in the tragic incident,” said WFP, adding that he was still confirming details.
PAM said that “humanitarian needs went out of control” after the long blocking of Israel of supplies entering Gaza, which started in early March to put pressure on the Palestinian terrorist group of Hamas to release hostages and accept a truce.
Officials at Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital said two people had been fatally crushed in the crowd and that two others died of ball injury.
The video of eyewitnesses checked independently by Reuters has shown a large crowd of people pushing in the warehouse and removing bags and boxes, because shots can be heard.
Hamas, in a statement, denied having opened fire or that he operated the warehouse.
The Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry published a video of the scene inside the warehouse during looting and accused Hamas of opening fire to protect the stores he kept from the Gazans.
It is Hamas’ warehouse in the center of Gaza – full of food, stood out of civilians.
People have stormed. Hamas has opened fire.pic.twitter.com/3eik0sdmsx
– Ministry of Foreign Affairs Israel (@israelmfa) May 28, 2025
The incident occurs while the independent Israeli humanitarian foundation supported by the United States began to exploit an aid mechanism that would largely bypass the UN and distance the supplies from Hamas.
The day before, the Ministry of Health managed by Gaza of Hamas said that at least one Palestinian had been killed and 48 others injured when a crowd had been dismissed while exceeding a new GHF aid distribution site.
The Israeli army, which protects the site from a distance, said that it had only shot warning shots to control looting. The Foundation said its military entrepreneurs keeping the site had not opened fire.
The GHF said Wednesday that the figures of the victims claimed by Hamas about Tuesday looting were false and distributed by the terrorist group to hinder the new help operation.
The Palestinians carry bags of flour after storming a WORLD FOOD PROGRAME warehouse in Zawaida, Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip, on May 28, 2025. (Abdel Kareem Hana / AP)
GHF said only two people had been injured in its compounds since its start of operation in Gaza on Monday. “To date, two gasans have required medical care that has been given on the spot – one relating to dehydration and another injured by others seeking aid,” a statement said.
Among the false reports that the GHF said that Hamas was spreading, there was that the organization of aid interrupted operations due to shots on one of its sites earlier on Wednesday.
The GHF also said that it had succeeded opened his second Aid distribution center on Wednesday in the south of Gaza.
“Threats, intimidation”
At a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, the Israel’s ambassador Danny Danon accused the United Nations of deliberately undermining the new aid mechanism supported by the United States and Israel in the Gaza Strip by corrupt means.
The Israeli United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon addresses the United Nations Security Council, March 21, 2025. (Richard Drew / AP)
By saying that he has acquired new “shocking information”, Danon told the Council that the UN “uses threats, intimidation and reprisals against NGOs who choose to participate in the new humanitarian mechanism”.
He said that a number of “major international NGOs” were punished by the UN after having indicated that they would participate in the new aid initiative and “would ignore the UN calls to a boycott”.
“The UN’s response was brutal. She looked like a mafia,” said the envoy. “Without any discussion, without regular procedure, the UN has deleted these NGOs from the shared aid database”, a central system for monitoring Gaza aid deliveries established by a general assembly resolution of the United Nations.
Danon, in his speech, provided no evidence or the names of the NGOs which, according to him, were targeted.
During a session of the Security Council, I explained how the UN exploited an extortion and threat system against humanitarian organizations that cooperate with the American aid mechanism in Gaza. It is mafia type behavior and a blatant violation of the fundamental principles of the UN. The UN must … pic.twitter.com/5hj6ythqbp
– Danny Danon ???????? דני דנון (@dannydanon) May 28, 2025
Upon request for additional information to support the envoy’s complaints, Danon’s office told Israel that he was aware of a certain number of NGOs that the UN worked to prevent to cooperate with the aid plan, but that this information can only be provided by the UN directly.
The UN did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the Secretary General of the UN Antonio Guterres, reiterated the opposition of the World Organization to coordination with the GHF.
“We will not participate in operations that do not meet our humanitarian principles,” Dujarric told AFP.
He said that the UN was doing everything he could to send help, adding that since last week, 800 trucks had been approved by Israel, but less than 500 have arrived in Gaza.
The new GHF aid initiative has become operational this week, partially replacing the executive led by non-tenuous people who had previously managed humanitarian aid to Gaza, following the decision of Israel to lift a blockage of aid of almost three months on the band.
The displaced Palestinians carrying rescue supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private aid group supported by the United States, return from the aid distribution centers to Rafah to their tents in the Southern Gaza Strip on May 29, 2025. (Photo of AFP)
Israel says that this has helped establish the new aid mechanism to prevent Hamas from siphoning supplies, but the UN agencies say they have mechanisms to this end while providing aid to all parts of the territory. The GHF has aroused strong criticism from the United Nations and various international actors, who argue that it is not under the casualness of the humanitarian crisis in the enclave.
The GHF says that it established four hubs, two of which began to operate in the Rafah, now uninhabited. He said that around eight aid trucks were distributed on Wednesday at the Hubs without incident.
About 600 trucks entered Gaza every day during the ceasefire earlier this year.
During the meeting, a United Nations envoy compared the limited aid to Gaza to “a rescue canoe after the ship sank”.
Sigrid Kaag, a special coordinator for the United Nations for the Middle East, told the United Nations Security Council that people confronted with famine in Gaza “have lost hope”.
“Instead of saying” goodbye “, the Palestinians in Gaza now say:” go to paradise, “said Kaag.
The Palestinian UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour melted in tears during an emotional discourse at the CSNU, describing the “unbearable” suffering of children in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/6opaqmh4w
– Al Jazeera English (@Ajenglish) May 28, 2025
The Palestinian ambassador to the UN fell down when he alleged that 1,300 children had been killed and 4,000 injured since the last temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas collapsed in March, and spoke of mothers views “to embrace their reckless bodies, to caress their hair, to talk to them, to apologize”.
“If this is civilized,” said Riyad Mansour, “What is barbarism?”
The personalities of the victims of Gaza, who come from the authorities controlled by Hamas, cannot be verified and do not make the difference between the combatants and the civilians.
More than half of the Security Council requested that the organization of 15 members act on Gaza. The UN Ambassador to Slovenia, Samuel Zbogar, said that some members were working on a resolution project to require access to helpless help.
“Staying silent is not an option,” he told council.
The Palestinians carry bags of flour after storming a WORLD FOOD PROGRAME warehouse in Zawaida, Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip, on May 28, 2025. (Abdel Kareem Hana / AP)
The war in Gaza began when terrorists led by Hamas burst into southern Israel during the October 7 attack, killing some 1,200 people, mainly civilians and removing 251 as hostages. Hamas still has 58 hostages, about a third of them that are alive. Most of the others have been released in ceasefire agreements or other agreements. Israeli forces have saved eight and recovered dozens of bodies.
The Gaza Ministry of Health managed by Hamas says that more than 53,000 people in the strip have been killed or are presumed to be dead in the fighting so far, although the balance sheet cannot be checked and does not make the difference between civilians and combatants. Israel says he killed some 20,000 combat fighters in January and 1,600 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.
Israel said he was looking to minimize civilian deaths and stresses that Hamas uses civilians from Gaza as human shields, fighting civil zones, including houses, hospitals, schools and mosques.
American efforts to mediate a ceasefire would have been make progressAlthough the gaps are still between the sides.
