Palestinians invade UN camps in search of food
Residents of the Gaza Strip raided warehouses and distribution centers of the United Nations Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA) to capture “essential survival supplies,” the organization said on Sunday (29), as highlighted by Portal news agency (see the video above).
“This is a worrying sign that civil order is beginning to collapse after three weeks of war and a strict siege in the Gaza Strip,” UNRWA said in a statement.
In one of the warehouses in Deir alBalah, UNRWA stores supplies for humanitarian convoys arriving in Gaza from Egypt via the Rafah border crossing.
Aid deliveries to Gaza have been disrupted since Israel began bombing the area in response to an attack by the terrorist group Hamas.
“Supplies in the market are running low, while humanitarian aid reaching the Gaza Strip with trucks from Egypt is inadequate,” UNRWA said, adding that the current system for moving humanitarian convoys to Gaza is “doomed to fail.” .
UNRWA said its ability to help the people of Gaza had been completely undermined by airstrikes that killed more than 50 of its staff and restricted the movement of aid.
Founded in 1949 after the first ArabIsraeli war, UNRWA provides public services such as schools, primary health care and humanitarian assistance in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
Reports from the Palestinian territory indicate that in addition to ground operations, Israel also increased bombing, particularly in the north.