Starving Palestinians empty UN food trucks
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip blocked and offloaded dozens of food trucks, the UN World Food Program says, as desperation mounts following Israel's months-long aid blockade while talks of a ceasefire inch forward.
The World Food Program said 77 trucks carrying aid, mostly flour, were stopped by hungry people who took the food before the trucks could reach their destination.
The nearly three-month Israeli aid blockade on Gaza has pushed the population of over two million to the brink of famine.
Hamas on Friday said it was reviewing a US proposal for a temporary ceasefire, which Israeli officials have approved.
US President Donald Trump said negotiators were nearing a deal.
A ceasefire would pause the fighting for 60 days, release some of the 58 hostages still held in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and much-needed food aid and other assistance, according to Hamas and Egyptian officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to the media.
The World Food Program said the fear of starvation in Gaza is high despite the aid that's entering now.
"We need to flood communities with food for the next few days to calm anxieties and rebuild the trust with communities that more food is coming," it said in a statement, adding that it has over 140,000 metric tons of food, enough to feed Gazans for two months, ready to be brought in.
A witness in the southern city of Khan Younis told The Associated Press the UN convoy was stopped at a makeshift roadblock and offloaded by desperate civilians in their thousands.
Most people carried bags of flour.
He said at one point a forklift was used to offload pallets.
The UN says it has been unable to get enough aid in because of fighting.
On Friday, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said it only picked up five truckloads of cargo from the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, and the other 60 trucks had to return due to intense hostilities.
A new US and Israeli-backed foundation started operations in Gaza this week, distributing food at several sites in a chaotic rollout.
Israel says the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation eventually will replace the aid operation that the UN and others have carried out during nearly 20 months of war.
It says the new mechanism is necessary, accusing Hamas of siphoning off large amounts of aid.
The UN denies that a significant diversion takes place.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation works with armed contractors, which it says are needed to distribute food safely.
Aid groups have accused the foundation of militarising aid.
Israel continued its military campaign across Gaza, saying it struck dozens of targets over the past day.
Gaza's Health Ministry said at least 60 people were killed by Israeli strikes in the past 24 hours.
The ministry said three people were killed by Israeli gunfire early Saturday in Rafah.
Three others were killed — parents and a child — when their car was struck in Gaza City.
An Israeli strike hit another car in Gaza City, killing four.
And an Israeli strike hit a tent sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis, killing six, said Weam Fares, a spokesperson for Nasser Hospital.
The war began when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1200 people, most of them civilians, and taking 250 hostages. Of those taken captive, 58 remain in Gaza.
Israel believes 35 are dead and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said there are doubts about the fate of several others.
Israeli strikes have killed more than 54,000 Gaza residents, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its tally.
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Six people were injured when a man yelled "Free Palestine" and threw incendiary devices into a crowd in the US city of Boulder in Colorado, where a demonstration to remember the Israeli hostages in Gaza was taking place. Six victims aged between 67 and 88 were taken to hospital, the FBI special agent in charge of the Denver Field Office, Mark Michalek, said on Sunday. At least one of them was in a critical condition. "As a result of these preliminary facts, it is clear that this is a targeted act of violence and the FBI is investigating this as an act of terrorism," Michalek said. He named the suspect as Mohamed Soliman, 45, who was also hospitalised.. FBI Director Kash Patel also described the incident as a "targeted terror attack", and Colorado Attorney-General Phil Weiser said it appeared to be "a hate crime given the group that was targeted". Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said he did not believe anyone else was involved. "We're fairly confident we have the lone suspect in custody," he said. The attack took place on the Pearl Street Mall, a popular pedestrian shopping district in the shadow of the University of Colorado, during an event organised by Run for Their Lives, an organisation devoted to drawing attention to the hostages seized in the aftermath of Hamas's 2023 attack on Israel. The incident comes amid heightened tensions in the US over Israel's war in Gaza, which has spurred both an increase in anti-Semitic hate crime as well as moves by conservative supporters of Israel led by President Donald Trump to brand pro-Palestinian protests as anti-Semitic. His administration has detained protesters of the war without charge and cut off funding to elite US universities that have permitted such demonstrations. In a post to X, a social network, Trump's deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Soliman had overstayed his visa. It was further evidence of the need to "fully reverse" what he described as "suicidal migration", he said. Brooke Coffman, a 19-year-old at the University of Colorado who witnessed the Boulder incident, said she saw four women lying or sitting on the ground with burns on their legs. One of them appeared to have been badly burned on most of her body and had been wrapped in a flag by someone, she said. She described seeing a man standing in the courtyard shirtless, holding a glass bottle of clear liquid and shouting. "Everybody is yelling, 'get water, get water,'" Coffman said. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a prominent Jewish Democrat, said it was an anti-Semitic attack. "This is horrifying, and this cannot continue. We must stand up to antisemitism," he said on X. The attack follows last month's arrest of a Chicago-born man in the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington, and someone opened fire on a group of people leaving an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee. The shooting fuelled polarisation in the US over the war in Gaza between supporters of Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators. with reuters Six people were injured when a man yelled "Free Palestine" and threw incendiary devices into a crowd in the US city of Boulder in Colorado, where a demonstration to remember the Israeli hostages in Gaza was taking place. Six victims aged between 67 and 88 were taken to hospital, the FBI special agent in charge of the Denver Field Office, Mark Michalek, said on Sunday. At least one of them was in a critical condition. "As a result of these preliminary facts, it is clear that this is a targeted act of violence and the FBI is investigating this as an act of terrorism," Michalek said. He named the suspect as Mohamed Soliman, 45, who was also hospitalised.. FBI Director Kash Patel also described the incident as a "targeted terror attack", and Colorado Attorney-General Phil Weiser said it appeared to be "a hate crime given the group that was targeted". Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said he did not believe anyone else was involved. "We're fairly confident we have the lone suspect in custody," he said. The attack took place on the Pearl Street Mall, a popular pedestrian shopping district in the shadow of the University of Colorado, during an event organised by Run for Their Lives, an organisation devoted to drawing attention to the hostages seized in the aftermath of Hamas's 2023 attack on Israel. The incident comes amid heightened tensions in the US over Israel's war in Gaza, which has spurred both an increase in anti-Semitic hate crime as well as moves by conservative supporters of Israel led by President Donald Trump to brand pro-Palestinian protests as anti-Semitic. His administration has detained protesters of the war without charge and cut off funding to elite US universities that have permitted such demonstrations. In a post to X, a social network, Trump's deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Soliman had overstayed his visa. It was further evidence of the need to "fully reverse" what he described as "suicidal migration", he said. Brooke Coffman, a 19-year-old at the University of Colorado who witnessed the Boulder incident, said she saw four women lying or sitting on the ground with burns on their legs. One of them appeared to have been badly burned on most of her body and had been wrapped in a flag by someone, she said. She described seeing a man standing in the courtyard shirtless, holding a glass bottle of clear liquid and shouting. "Everybody is yelling, 'get water, get water,'" Coffman said. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a prominent Jewish Democrat, said it was an anti-Semitic attack. "This is horrifying, and this cannot continue. We must stand up to antisemitism," he said on X. The attack follows last month's arrest of a Chicago-born man in the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington, and someone opened fire on a group of people leaving an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee. The shooting fuelled polarisation in the US over the war in Gaza between supporters of Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators. with reuters Six people were injured when a man yelled "Free Palestine" and threw incendiary devices into a crowd in the US city of Boulder in Colorado, where a demonstration to remember the Israeli hostages in Gaza was taking place. Six victims aged between 67 and 88 were taken to hospital, the FBI special agent in charge of the Denver Field Office, Mark Michalek, said on Sunday. At least one of them was in a critical condition. "As a result of these preliminary facts, it is clear that this is a targeted act of violence and the FBI is investigating this as an act of terrorism," Michalek said. He named the suspect as Mohamed Soliman, 45, who was also hospitalised.. FBI Director Kash Patel also described the incident as a "targeted terror attack", and Colorado Attorney-General Phil Weiser said it appeared to be "a hate crime given the group that was targeted". Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said he did not believe anyone else was involved. "We're fairly confident we have the lone suspect in custody," he said. The attack took place on the Pearl Street Mall, a popular pedestrian shopping district in the shadow of the University of Colorado, during an event organised by Run for Their Lives, an organisation devoted to drawing attention to the hostages seized in the aftermath of Hamas's 2023 attack on Israel. The incident comes amid heightened tensions in the US over Israel's war in Gaza, which has spurred both an increase in anti-Semitic hate crime as well as moves by conservative supporters of Israel led by President Donald Trump to brand pro-Palestinian protests as anti-Semitic. His administration has detained protesters of the war without charge and cut off funding to elite US universities that have permitted such demonstrations. In a post to X, a social network, Trump's deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Soliman had overstayed his visa. It was further evidence of the need to "fully reverse" what he described as "suicidal migration", he said. Brooke Coffman, a 19-year-old at the University of Colorado who witnessed the Boulder incident, said she saw four women lying or sitting on the ground with burns on their legs. One of them appeared to have been badly burned on most of her body and had been wrapped in a flag by someone, she said. She described seeing a man standing in the courtyard shirtless, holding a glass bottle of clear liquid and shouting. "Everybody is yelling, 'get water, get water,'" Coffman said. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a prominent Jewish Democrat, said it was an anti-Semitic attack. "This is horrifying, and this cannot continue. We must stand up to antisemitism," he said on X. The attack follows last month's arrest of a Chicago-born man in the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington, and someone opened fire on a group of people leaving an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee. The shooting fuelled polarisation in the US over the war in Gaza between supporters of Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators. with reuters Six people were injured when a man yelled "Free Palestine" and threw incendiary devices into a crowd in the US city of Boulder in Colorado, where a demonstration to remember the Israeli hostages in Gaza was taking place. Six victims aged between 67 and 88 were taken to hospital, the FBI special agent in charge of the Denver Field Office, Mark Michalek, said on Sunday. At least one of them was in a critical condition. "As a result of these preliminary facts, it is clear that this is a targeted act of violence and the FBI is investigating this as an act of terrorism," Michalek said. He named the suspect as Mohamed Soliman, 45, who was also hospitalised.. FBI Director Kash Patel also described the incident as a "targeted terror attack", and Colorado Attorney-General Phil Weiser said it appeared to be "a hate crime given the group that was targeted". Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said he did not believe anyone else was involved. "We're fairly confident we have the lone suspect in custody," he said. The attack took place on the Pearl Street Mall, a popular pedestrian shopping district in the shadow of the University of Colorado, during an event organised by Run for Their Lives, an organisation devoted to drawing attention to the hostages seized in the aftermath of Hamas's 2023 attack on Israel. The incident comes amid heightened tensions in the US over Israel's war in Gaza, which has spurred both an increase in anti-Semitic hate crime as well as moves by conservative supporters of Israel led by President Donald Trump to brand pro-Palestinian protests as anti-Semitic. His administration has detained protesters of the war without charge and cut off funding to elite US universities that have permitted such demonstrations. In a post to X, a social network, Trump's deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Soliman had overstayed his visa. It was further evidence of the need to "fully reverse" what he described as "suicidal migration", he said. Brooke Coffman, a 19-year-old at the University of Colorado who witnessed the Boulder incident, said she saw four women lying or sitting on the ground with burns on their legs. One of them appeared to have been badly burned on most of her body and had been wrapped in a flag by someone, she said. She described seeing a man standing in the courtyard shirtless, holding a glass bottle of clear liquid and shouting. "Everybody is yelling, 'get water, get water,'" Coffman said. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a prominent Jewish Democrat, said it was an anti-Semitic attack. "This is horrifying, and this cannot continue. We must stand up to antisemitism," he said on X. The attack follows last month's arrest of a Chicago-born man in the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington, and someone opened fire on a group of people leaving an event hosted by the American Jewish Committee. The shooting fuelled polarisation in the US over the war in Gaza between supporters of Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators. with reuters
