The Palestinians are looting a warehouse of a work system with widespread hunger, deepening the chaos of Gaza

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The United Nations Humanitarian Agency said that a warehouse of the World Food Program in central Gaza was looted during a chaotic impulsion when at least two people were killed.

Joint footage on social media, and confirmed by UN officials, confirmed hundreds of “hungry … in search of food” within a World Food Program WAREHOUSE on Wednesday, shredding funds that the agency said “has been put in advance for distribution.”

The accident that occurred in Deir Al -Bala is the second day of the civil disorder that involves Rare food supplies In Gaza, nearly three months after the Israeli blockade brought the entire pocket on the brink of starvation. The Israeli forces used live fire on Tuesday to control the crowds of Palestinian families who were almost overwhelmed by the food distribution site on the first day of its operation.

The United Nations Human Rights Office said that at least 47 people were injured on Tuesday in an attempt to collect aid. The World Food Program said that many of them were also injured in the Wednesday accident, and he was still investigating initial reports that two people had passed through chaos in its warehouse.

“Gaza needs an immediate increase in nutritional assistance,” said the British program program after the looting incident, in which it blamed the despair caused by the siege of Israel. “This is the only way to reassure people who will not starve.”

Hunger is widespread among the people of Gaza 2.1 million and so rare that humanitarian agencies are concerned that chaos can deepen, especially since the new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is supported by Israel, stumbled in its first week of its operations.

GHF, which Israel and the United States defended as an alternative to the UN regime for decades, said that it had managed to open a second position in the south on Wednesday.

The organization said it had distributed about 800,000 meals in the total during the first two days.

The group emerging by most humanitarian agencies has been boycotted by Gaza experience because of its military model to hand over food. Foreign mercenaries are guarding food convoys and distribution sites, which were stored by the Israeli forces.

Many GHF leaders have left this week, at least one indicated the inability to “adhere to human principles.” The food distribution sites site in the southern parts of the broken pocket also raised fears that Israel will use food to attract hungry Palestinians in the south, which led to mass exodus.

“There are many parties that want to see GHF failure,” said the Foundation. “Their goal is to force a return to the status quo, even if that means risking aid to save life to the people of Gaza.”

With extensive international pressure, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allowed a small amount of aid from the United Nations system to start entering Gaza last week. So far, less than 900 trucks have been allowed to enter over the past ten days, compared to the 700 day flows before Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which led to the latest conflict.

“This is similar to the residence of survival after the ship sank,” Sigrid Kaag, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process.

Moreover, Israeli military operations were so severe that human workers were not only able to drive about 200 of these trucks from border checkpoints to distribution warehouses, the United Nations official said.

The Israeli army spokesman, in Arabic, claimed that the footage showed that Hamas had hidden from Ghazan, although the World Food Program confirmed that the facility belongs to the agency.

Israel has moved to the United Nations cutting off the humanitarian distribution system in Gaza, partly due to concerns about the alleged Hamas stealing.

However, the United Nations and other agencies say they have never been provided for any evidence that the armed group steals its supplies in a wide coordination or in a large scale.