According to the World Food Program, a convoy of 14 trucks is turned away by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the Gaza Strip. A little later the convoy was said to have been looted. The helpers continue to demand access via the street.
A truck convoy carrying food for people in the north of the embattled Gaza Strip was turned away by Israeli soldiers and then looted by a crowd, according to the World Food Program. As the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) announced on Tuesday in Rome, the convoy consisted of 14 trucks.
He was turned away by Israeli forces after a three-hour wait at the Wadi Gaza checkpoint. The trucks were diverted and later stopped by a large crowd of desperate people. They looted the food shipments and took about 200 tons of them, the WFP statement said.
The World Food Program needs the road
Although the convoy did not make it to the north of the sealed-off coastal area “to provide food to the starving people, the WFP will continue to explore all options to achieve this,” the WFP quoted its deputy executive director Carl Skau as saying. Large quantities of food needed to avert famine in the northern Gaza Strip could only be transported by road.
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On the same day, Jordan, the USA and other nations coordinated the most extensive aid deliveries from the air to date. According to the Jordanian armed forces, the aid dropped over various locations in the north of the Gaza Strip included food, some of which came from the World Food Program.
Drops “last resort”
However, the United Nations is pushing to expand aid deliveries by truck. “Drops are a last resort and will not avert famine. We need access points to the northern Gaza Strip that will allow us to deliver enough food for half a million people in great need,” said Skau.
Source: Stern
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