Thousands of people stormed a humanitarian aid warehouse in the Gaza Strip

Thousands of people broke into several warehouses and distribution centers of the United Nations Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip and stole wheat flour and other essential items such as hygiene products. This is stated on the website UNRWA.

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At one of the warehouses in Deir el-Balah, UNRWA stores cargo from humanitarian convoys arriving from Egypt.

“This is a worrying sign that civil order is beginning to break down after three weeks of war. People are scared, frustrated and desperate. Tension and fear are increasing due to the cessation of telephone and Internet communications. People feel they are on their own, cut off from their families in Gaza and from the rest of the world,” said Thomas White, UNRWA's director of Gaza affairs.

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Massive population movements from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south have placed enormous pressure on these communities, further straining crumbling public services. In some families, up to 50 relatives found shelter in one house.

“Supplies in the market are running low and the humanitarian aid arriving in the Gaza Strip by truck from Egypt is insufficient. The needs of the population are enormous, even for basic survival, and the assistance we receive is meager and inconsistent,” White added.

To date, just over 80 trucks carrying humanitarian aid have arrived in Gaza this week. On Saturday, October 28, there was not a single convoy due to communication failures. UNRWA, the main organization responsible for receiving and storing aid in the Gaza Strip, was unable to contact various parties to coordinate the passage of the convoy.

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“The current convoy system is designed to fail. Very few trucks, slow processes, stringent checks, supplies that do not meet the requirements of UNRWA and other humanitarian organizations, and, most of all, the continued ban on fuel supplies all contribute to the failure of the system. We call for a regular and steady flow of humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip to meet needs, especially as tensions and discontent rise,” White concluded.

Meanwhile, UNRWA staff in Gaza reported that internet services and communications had been restored. They will re-assess the situation with a view to resuming convoy operations and distributing aid.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• October 7 Hamas attacked Israel: Netanyahu said "this is war."
• 8 October The Israeli government officially declared war and greenlighted "significant military steps" in response to the surprise attack by Hamas militants.
• October 11, first plane with American weapons arrived in southern Israel, and the US government invited American citizens wishing to leave Israel evacuation flights. On October 14 it became known: Egypt, Israel and the United States agreed that foreigners living in the Gaza Strip, will be able to travel through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt.
• October 16 President US Joe Biden said Israeli occupation Gaza Strip would be a big mistake.
• Hossein Amir-Abdallahian, Iranian Foreign Minister, October 18 posted a tweet where he wrote that Israel’s time is “running out”. This happened after a rocket attack on a hospital in Gaza took place on October 17.
• 18 October US President Joe Biden visited Israelto express strong support for a country that has declared war on the Palestinian group Hamas due to its brutal terror.
• 19 October US President Joe Biden addressed the Americans from the Oval Office with a speech about the wars between Israel and Hamas, as well as Russia and Ukraine.
• October 24 Hamas released two hostages: about what one of them said.
• On October 24, at a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the situation in the Middle East is becoming more dire by the hour and called on all parties to respect and protect civilians. Israel reacted angrily to comments by the UN Secretary General.
• Israeli troops and tanks conducted a raid in the Gaza Strip on the night of October 26. The military said it carried out several strikes on terrorist targets to “prepare the battlefield” ahead of a major ground operation.
• 27 October two Egyptian cities on the Red Sea were bombed — six people were injured. The aggressor has again demonstrated the danger of the conflict between Israel and Gaza spreading throughout the region.
• Israel intends stop cooperation with the Starlink project of the American company SpaceX following company owner Elon Musk's announcement that Starlink would provide satellite communications for humanitarian organizations in the Gaza Strip.

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