WFP asks Israel for support after aid looted

The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) urged Israel to assist with aid distribution after its convoys were raided by starving residents. WFP added that aid was stolen from 15 of its lorries late last night in southern Gaza en route to bakeries. “Hunger, desperation, and anxiety over whether more food aid is coming is contributing to rising insecurity. We need support from the Israeli authorities to get far greater volumes of food assistance into Gaza faster, more consistently, and transported along safer routes, as was done during the ceasefire,” the world’s largest humanitarian organization said. Previously, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres highlighted that the UN has approximately 9,000 truckloads of aid ready to enter Gaza, along with a “detailed, principled, operationally sound five-stage plan” for delivering supplies to Palestinians, but Israel is blocking it.