“Fifteen World Meals Programme vans have been looted late final night time in southern Gaza, whereas en path to WFP-supported bakeries,” the UN company mentioned. “These vans have been transporting essential meals provides for hungry populations ready anxiously for help.”
The event is a blow to persevering with efforts to assist Gaza’s most weak individuals after Israel allowed a restricted variety of help vans into Gaza earlier this week, following an 11-week complete blockade.
Right now, Gazans face “starvation, desperation and nervousness over whether or not extra meals help is coming”, WFP mentioned, noting that the uncertainty “is contributing to rising insecurity”.
“We want assist from the Israeli authorities to get far better volumes of meals help into Gaza sooner, extra constantly and transported alongside safer routes, as was carried out throughout the ceasefire,” it insisted.