4 Dead as Desperate Crowds Overrun Gaza Food Warehouses
Four Palestinians were killed Wednesday when hundreds of desperate residents overran a United Nations warehouse in central Gaza seeking food, as the territory reels from a worsening humanitarian crisis following a near-total Israeli blockade that lasted nearly three months. According to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, two people were crushed in the chaos, and two others died from gunshot wounds.
The deadly incident came a day after at least one person was killed and dozens wounded by gunfire during a rush on a separate aid distribution site in Gaza, operated by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). The Israeli military claimed it only fired warning shots, and GHF said its private security contractors did not open fire.
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The World Food Program on Wednesday responded to the chaos. “Gaza needs an immediate scale-up of food assistance. This is the only way to reassure people that they will not starve,” the group wrote on X, noting that it has long warned of the risks of limiting humanitarian aid.
Israel has said that the new food distribution model is meant to prevent aid from being diverted by Hamas. UN agencies and aid groups reject the GHF model, calling it unethical and unworkable.
According to the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, 876 trucks of humanitarian aid have entered Gaza since Israel lifted its blockade on May 19. Aid distribution reportedly began on Monday.
