After 97 UN aid trucks in Gaza are ‘violently looted’ by armed men, food prices soar

Food prices are soaring successful the Gaza Strip aft equipped men attacked and robbed astir 100 U.N. assistance trucks that crossed implicit from Israel. 

Of the 109 trucks that entered cardinal Gaza connected Saturday, 97 were "violently looted" and "forced astatine gunpoint to unload aid," according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees successful the Near East (UNRWA). 

"Due to captious shortages of flour, each 8 U.N.-supported bakeries in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis person been operating astatine diminished capableness for weeks. Many person been forced to unopen down entirely," the bureau added. "Without contiguous intervention, terrible nutrient shortages are acceptable to worsen, further endangering the lives of implicit 2 cardinal radical who beryllium connected humanitarian assistance to survive." 

A pistillate successful the metropolis of Deir al-Balah told The Associated Press that the terms of flour has present climbed to much than $100 a bag, if it tin adjacent beryllium found. 

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Palestinians enactment up for nutrient successful Deir al-Balah successful the Gaza Strip connected Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the convoy of 109 trucks was instructed by the Israeli subject to instrumentality an "alternative, unfamiliar route" aft the assistance was brought done the Kerem Shalom crossing and that the trucks were robbed adjacent the crossing itself. 

Israel is accusing transgression gangs and the Palestinian violent radical Hamas of stealing the aid. 

However, Bassem Naim, a elder Hamas authoritative based abroad, alleged the looters were young Bedouins who run eastbound of Rafah adjacent Israeli subject positions. 

Al-Aqsa TV, which is operated by the militants, claimed that Hamas-run information forces successful Gaza had launched an cognition against looters, sidesplitting 20 of them. 

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Palestinians are seen storming trucks loaded with humanitarian assistance brought successful done a U.S.-built pier successful the cardinal Gaza Strip connected May 18, 2024. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Nora Muhanna, a Gaza nonmigratory who has been displaced from Gaza City, told the AP, "From the beginning, determination are nary goods, and adjacent if they are available, determination is nary money." 

UNRWA besides said "The Israeli authorities proceed to disregard their ineligible obligations nether planetary instrumentality to guarantee the population's basal needs are met and to facilitate the harmless transportation of aid.  

Aid trucks from UNRWA present assistance adjacent Gaza City connected June 19, 2024. (Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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"Such responsibilities proceed erstwhile trucks participate the Gaza Strip, until radical are reached with indispensable assistance," it wrote successful a connection connected X. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.