Thousands of people broke into aid warehouses in Gaza to take food and “basic survival items,” a UN agency says, in a mark of growing desperation and the breakdown of public order three weeks into the war between Gaza’s Hamas terror group rulers and Israel.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, provides basic services to hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza.
Thomas White, the agency’s Gaza director, says the break-ins were “a worrying sign that civil order is starting to break down after three weeks of war and a tight siege on Gaza.
“People are scared, frustrated and desperate,” he says.
Yesterday, The New York Times published a report backing up Israel’s assertion that Hamas is stockpiling food and fuel in the Gaza Strip, keeping it from residents who are in desperate need.
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