Dozens of United Nations food trucks were banned and were emptied by the Palestinians in Gaza Strip While despair is escalating after the siege of Israel for months, while talks on the ceasefire forward.
The United Nations Food Program said on Saturday that 77 trucks carry help, most of them flour, were suspended by hungry people who eaten before the trucks could reach their destination.
“After nearly 80 days of the total siege, societies are hunger – and they are no longer ready to watch food passes them,” the Language Programming Authority said in a statement. “This delivery is the beginning, but it is almost not enough.”
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The Israeli blockade for nearly three months on Gaza has pushed about 2.3 million people to the brink of starvation. While the pressure slightly reduced in recent days, as Israel has allowed some aid to enter, the organizations say there is still enough food.
The United Nations described Gaza as “the place of hunger on the ground.”
“To restore the house, reduce fear, and prevent more chaos, we must flood societies with food – now,” the program said. “Only widely consistent aid can rebuild confidence.”
A witness in the southern city of Khan Yunis told Associated Press that the United Nations convoy stopped at a temporary road barrier and was unloaded by desperate civilians. Most people carried flour bags on their backs or heads. He said at one stages a forklin crane was used to empty platforms of trucks that were cut off. The witness spoke on the condition that his identity is not disclosed due to the fear of revenge.
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Hamas said on Friday that it had been reviewing a US -led supremacy proposal for a temporary ceasefire that Israel has already accepted. President Trump said that the negotiators were approaching a deal.
During the 60 -day ceasefire, the proposal, a The draft deal that CBS News obtained He pointed out that Hamas will release 10 living hostages and residues of 18 dead hostages for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, including some lifelong provisions, food aid that affects the need and other assistance.
The United Nations said earlier this month that the Israeli authorities forced them to use unaccounted roads within the areas controlled by the Israeli army in the eastern regions of Rafah and Khan Yunis, where armed gangs are active and trucks stopped.
The Israeli army did not immediately respond to comment.
A joint internal document with relief groups on security incidents, which was seen by Associated Press, said four incidents of facilities that are looted in three days at the end of May, including the convoy on Saturday.
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The United Nations says it has not been able to get enough help due to the fighting. On Friday, UN spokesman Stephen Dujarrik said that only five truck loads of shipping from the Palestinian side from the Karim Shalom crossing were captured, and 60 other trucks had a return due to severe hostilities in the region.
An Israeli official said that his country offered the UN logical and logistical support, but “the United Nations does not do its work.” Instead, a new institution from the United States and Israeli began in Gaza this week, and to distribute food in many sites to start chaos. Israel says Gaza Humanitarian Corporation It will replace the huge aid carried out by the United Nations and others throughout the war.
She says the new mechanism is necessary, accusing Hamas from getting rid of large quantities of aid. The United Nations denies a large transformation.
Sindy McCain, CEO of the World Food Program, told “The nation was confronted with Margaret Brennan” last Sunday There is no evidence that supports Israel’s claims that Hamas is responsible for looting their aid truck.
She said: “These people are desperate, and they see a truck for a program for global food coming, and they are running for it.” “This has no relationship with Hamas or any kind of organized crimes, or anything. It is simply related to the fact that these people are starving to death.”
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Meanwhile, Israel continues its military campaign via Gaza.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said that at least 60 people were killed by Israeli strikes during the past 24 hours. She said that three people shot the Israeli shooting early Saturday morning in the southern city of Rafah. Three other people, parents and children were killed when their car was beaten in Gaza City.
The war began when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and took 250 hostages. Among those who took the prisoner, 58 remained in Gaza, but Israel believes that 35 killers, and that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that there are “doubts” about the fate of many others.
Israeli strikes have killed more than 54,000 Gaza residents, most of them women and children, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza in Hamas, which do not distinguish between civilians and fighters in their balance.
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