More than 100 trucks have been looted in one of the largest raids on aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip in recent months.
The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, suspects local gangs and family clans are behind the looting.
These groups have been fighting between themselves for control of local shops in the south of the coastal strip, Lazzarini said in Geneva, adding that his agency has long been warning about the collapse of public order in Gaza.
Amid food shortages and ongoing Israeli strikes, desparate Gazans in the southern city of Khan Younis had also tried to storm a UNRWA warehouse. However, Lazzarini complained that there was nothing left to distribute because of the looted trucks.
The humanitarian situation in the densely populated and sealed-off area is catastrophic after more than a year of war.
