14 trucks carrying around 200 tons of food had waited for three hours at the Wadi Gaza checkpoint, in the southeast of the enclave. The trucks were then looted by “a desperate crowd who seized the load,” the WFP said in a statement.
The agency said it was exploring all means of delivering aid to the Gaza Strip, but that the road was the only way to transport enough food. The UN estimates that 2.2 million people are on the brink of famine, particularly in the north where Israeli forces are preventing aid from entering.