JAKARTA - UN trucks that delivered food to Gaza were stopped and looted at night. The looting of aid trucks has occurred several times in Gaza.
The looting of aid trucks comes hours after desperate Palestinians stormed a distribution site managed by US-backed groups trying to start shipping aid.
The incident emphasizes the problem of delivering supplies to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who are facing increasingly severe hunger and hunger after weeks of Israeli blockade.
On Tuesday, May 27, Israeli forces fired warning shots as crowds flocked to distribution points managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US-backed group that began supplying aid under the new system Israel hopes will prevent aid from reaching Hamas.
The United Nations and other international aid groups refused to take part, saying the scheme violated the principle that aid should be distributed neutrally, based solely on needs.
When the new system began, the Israeli military also allowed 95 trucks belonging to the United Nations and other aid groups into the area, but three Gaza residents and three traders said a number of trucks were targeted by looting.
A Palestinian transport operator said 20 trucks belonging to the UN World Food Program were attacked shortly before midnight.
"Some trucks made it through, then it seems people are aware of that," an eyewitness told Reuters on Wednesday, May 28.
"They wake up, put up barriers on the road, intercept, and steal things," he added.
Israeli forces, which resumed their operations in Gaza in March after a brief ceasefire, resumed attacks on Wednesday, killing 15 people including eight family members of a local journalist, Palestinian health officials said.
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