Nearly 80 aid trucks carrying food ransacked in Gaza Saturday, says WFP as famine worsens

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Nearly 80 aid trucks traveling through southern and central Gaza were looted by desperate civilians on Saturday, the UN World Food Programme said as famine conditions worsen in the Palestinian enclave.

In a statement issued on X, the WFP said 77 trucks had crossed into Gaza loaded with flour. All of them “were stopped along the way, with food taken mainly by hungry people trying to feed their families.”

It added that “after 80 days of a total blockade, communities are starving – and they are no longer willing to let food pass them by.”

Nahed Shehaibar, head of the association, told CNN that 20 trucks carrying flour were ransacked…