UN agency says 77 trucks with aid goods were stormed in Gaza

A large number of starving people in the Gaza Strip have stopped, stormed and looted 77 trucks carrying aid goods from the UN World Food Programme (WFP) on their way to distribution centres, the Rome-based agency posted on the platform X on Saturday.

"After nearly 80 days of a total blockade, communities are starving - and they are no longer willing to watch food pass them by," the statement said.

"To restore hope, ease fear and prevent further chaos, we must flood the communities with food - now. Only consistent large-scale aid can rebuild trust," the WFP wrote.

The WFP stated that it is capable of doing so: "WFP has enough food to feed all 2.2 [million] people for 2 months," the post on X further stated.

However, this requires safe transport routes in the Gaza Strip, faster approval procedures on the Israeli side and ultimately a ceasefire in the Gaza conflict, which has been ongoing for almost 20 months.

After a blockade of aid deliveries lasting several months, Israel has been allowing a small amount of goods into the sealed-off coastal strip for a few days.

The blockade was intended to increase pressure on the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement to release the remaining hostages it is holding in the Gaza Strip. Additionally, the government accused Hamas of stealing aid goods to make money, which Hamas denies.