Israeli media report storming of Gaza food distribution centre
Palestinians have stormed a new food distribution centre in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media reports on Tuesday.
The Israeli news portal ynet reported that the chaos forced employees of a US group to withdraw and that shots were fired from Israeli helicopters.
There were initially no reports of possible injuries in the incident in the city of Rafah. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the reports.
Many people in the embattled coastal strip are in a desperate situation after a months-long blockade of aid supplies by Israel, which has only recently been eased slightly.
The newly established Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), supported by Israel and the United States, previously reported that it had distributed the first aid supplies to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli government wants the GHF, established a few months ago, to be responsible for distributing aid supplies in the future. It has said the mechanism is designed to prevent the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from intercepting supplies and profiting from them.
Israel plans to use the four GHF distribution centres in the south and centre of the Gaza Strip to bypass UN aid organizations and other international aid agencies.
The Interior Ministry in Gaza, controlled by Hamas, has called on the population to boycott the new distribution mechanism.
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