Gaza’s help trucks rushed with desperate and hungry crowds, says WFP

The crowds of civilians have rushed trucks for help in Gaza, said the World Food Program, as hunger and despair create chaotic scenes.

The humanitarian organization said it had brought 77 trucks loaded with flour to gas overnight and early Saturday.

“All the trucks were stopped along the way, with food being taken mainly by hungry people trying to feed their families,” WFP said.

Due to the “very high” chance, convoys would not reach their warehouse, it was decided to allow people to strive for crowds, WFP Abeer Etefa spokesman told the BBC.

Israel relieved an 11-week help blockade on May 19, but the UN says the amount sent in the last week is just over 10% of people’s needs.

The crowds on Saturday were civilians who were saying that the food was coming, “desperate ones who couldn’t wait to reach points of distribution,” said G -ja Etefa.

WFP has chosen routes to deliver help, “which are closer to the population and more fucked and far from gangs.”

The workers instructed people to only take one bag of flour each, but failed to control who took what was intended.

“After nearly 80 days from a common blockade, starving people will not start a food truck,” WFP added.

A UN-backed assessment said the entire Gaza population was exposed to a “critical risk” of starvation, with Mrs. Etefa saying that two million people were in a “desperate” need for food.

After the blockade partially lifted, WFP managed to distribute trucks, but “not on the scale we would like and not in the quantities we need to get there so that we can calm the situation and control the chaos,” she said.

Israel said he had imposed a gas blockade to put pressure on Hamas to release the other hostages, at least 20 of which are thought to be alive.

The head of the UN UN Refugee Agency said 900 trucks sent to Gaza last week are “just over 10% of people’s daily needs.”

“The help that is being sent now is making fun of the mass tragedy that unfolds under our clock,” said Philip Lazarini at X.

The Israeli military agency COGAT has accused the UN of not spreading assistance in Gaza, with the Israeli Foreign Ministry said hundreds of trucks are waiting.

“More help will actually come to people if you are going to gather the help that is waiting for you with the crossings,” said when UN X on Friday.

UN regional heads of humanitarian office Jonathan Whital said the agency faces challenges in spreading help due to escalating uncertainty on routes, giving it “inappropriate routes”, “long delays” when receiving approval and “desperate crowds” along the way.

A new organization, supported by the US and Israel, also distributes food to certain sites in Gaza. Israel created the plan after blaming Hamas for theft of help the group denies.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said it has distributed two million meals this week, which the BBC is not able to check independently.

This week there were chaotic scenes on these distribution sites. The UN declined to work with the operation, stating that it was contrary to humanitarian principles.

In the meantime, Israeli air strikes continue. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday that he had hit dozens of terrorist goals throughout the Gaza Strip over the past day.

Sixty people have been killed in Israeli military operations in the last 24 hours, Gaza Hamas Health Ministry said.

Statistics do not include the North Gaza check, where the last hospital closed Thursday after the Israeli military ordered its evacuation.

Christos Georgalas, a Greek surgeon, who worked at Nasser Hospital in Khan Enis in southern Gaza by May 21, told the BBC that his patients were mostly children, usually with injuries to the shrarap.

“The children were the main victims of trauma and malnutrition,” he said on Friday.

Malnutrition slows down the healing process and increases the risk of infection as the wounds remain open longer, he explained.

He and hospital officials only eat rice for lunch and dinner, which he said made them lucky compared to others. One of his colleagues told him that he had lost 26 pounds (57 pounds) in recent months.

Georgalas said many doctors were not paid in a year. Some live in tents, traveling without protection to work or have to be evacuated in a short time.

“They are worried about their relatives and lives, they are hungry, even though they continue,” he said.

Since leaving Gaza, his colleague told him that ICU has been “constantly full” and “overloaded”, with doctors having to take care of rations, as so many patients need intubation.

Meanwhile, four Arab countries that had planned a remarkable visit to the West Coast this weekend has condemned Israel’s decision to block the trip.

The delegation that plans to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramala includes the foreign ministers of Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

An Israeli official said the intended meeting aims to discuss the promotion of a Palestinian state, which the current Israeli government rejects.

Saudi Arabia and France host an international conference next month, designed to resurrect the decision of two countries in response to the Gaza War.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others were hostage.

At least 54 381 people have been killed in Gaza since then, including 4,117 since Israel resumed its offensive on March 18, according to Hamas Health Ministry.