After 97 UN aid trucks in Gaza are ‘violently looted’ by armed men, food prices soar

Meals costs are hovering within the Gaza Strip after armed males attacked and robbed almost 100 U.N. help vans that crossed over from Israel.

Of the 109 vans that entered central Gaza on Saturday, 97 have been “violently looted” and “pressured at gunpoint to unload help,” in accordance with the United Nations Reduction and Works Company for Palestine Refugees within the Close to East (UNRWA).

“As a consequence of essential shortages of flour, all eight U.N.-supported bakeries in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis have been working at diminished capability for weeks. Many have been pressured to close down totally,” the company added. “With out speedy intervention, extreme meals shortages are set to worsen, additional endangering the lives of over 2 million individuals who rely on humanitarian help to outlive.”

A lady within the metropolis of Deir al-Balah instructed The Related Press that the value of flour has now climbed to greater than $100 a bag, if it will possibly even be discovered.

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Palestinians line up for meals in Deir al-Balah within the Gaza Strip on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric stated the convoy of 109 vans was instructed by the Israeli navy to take an “different, unfamiliar route” after the help was introduced by the Kerem Shalom crossing and that the vans have been robbed close to the crossing itself.

Israel is accusing prison gangs and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas of stealing the help.

Nevertheless, Bassem Naim, a senior Hamas official based mostly overseas, alleged the looters have been younger Bedouins who function east of Rafah close to Israeli navy positions.

Al-Aqsa TV, which is operated by the militants, claimed that Hamas-run safety forces in Gaza had launched an operation in opposition to looters, killing 20 of them.

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Palestinians are seen storming vans loaded with humanitarian help introduced in by a U.S.-built pier within the central Gaza Strip on Might 18, 2024. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Nora Muhanna, a Gaza resident who has been displaced from Gaza Metropolis, instructed the AP, “From the start, there are not any items, and even when they’re obtainable, there isn’t any cash.”

UNRWA additionally stated “The Israeli authorities proceed to ignore their authorized obligations underneath worldwide regulation to make sure the inhabitants’s fundamental wants are met and to facilitate the protected supply of help.