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Almost 80 Help trucks Traveling across the south and center of Gaza were looted by desperate civilians on Saturday, the United Nations World Food Program said that the famine conditions aggravate in the Palestinian enclave.
In a press release published on X, the WFP said that 77 trucks had crossed Gaza loaded with flour. All “were arrested along the way, with food taken mainly by hungry people trying to feed their families”.
He added that “after 80 days of a total blockade, the communities are hungry – and they are no longer ready to let the food pass.”
Nahed Shehaibar, head of the association, told CNN that 20 trucks carrying flour had been ransacked near Netzarim in the center of Gaza, and about 50 trucks of flour were stripped of their cargoes Khan Younis In the south of Gaza.
WFP said in an article on X on Saturday that “the humanitarian situation of #Gaza in a spiral. Borders, hunger and despair have made delivery of volatile aid – trucks are looted, people risk everything for a bag of flour. ”
“To restore hope, facilitate fear and prevent more chaos, we have to flood food communities – now.”
Videos have shown that dozens of people in Khan Younis were carrying bags of flour. Similar scenes took place in Netzarim, where gusts of gunshots could be heard while the crowds rushed to grasp bags of flour.
Hunger has spread to Gaza, with United Nations agencies warning of imminent famine without a radical increase in the aid entering the territory and being part of it. There have been several looting incidents.
The United Arab Emirates said last week that one of the 24 trucks he had organized had reached the planned destination.
Last week, chaos broke out when tens of thousands of hungry Palestinians arrived at two new food distribution sites led by Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 11 people were killed and dozens injured in this incident.
THE GHFA controversial private foundation supported by Israel and the United States, says that it continues to increase the distribution of its four central and southern Gaza centers. He said that on Saturday, he distributed 30 trucks of food trucks totaling 28,800 boxes in his center in Rafah in southern Gaza, adding that “the distribution of today’s meals was the biggest to date and five times more than yesterday”.
UN help agencies have critical The GHF help mechanism, saying that it violates humanitarian principles and increases the risks for the Palestinians.
Philippe Lazzarini, Executive Director of UNRWA – The United Nations agency that serves the Palestinian territories – said 900 trucks were sent to Gaza in the past two weeks because an Israeli blockage was partially relaxed. The UN also says that he has trouble coordinating the safe distribution of help inside Gaza once he has arrived.
“This represents a little more than 10% of the daily needs of people in Gaza. The aid which is sent now makes fun of the mass tragedy which takes place under our watch”, Lazzarini Posted on XBy comparing the quantity to the 600 to 800 trucks of trucks entering daily in Gaza during the ceasefire earlier this year.
“Current mass famine can be stopped. It takes political will,” he said.