‘Not sticking around to see who’s firing’: UN cancels food trucks in Rafah

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The UN’s food agency has stopped its aid convoys into under-siege Gaza for security reasons, after Israel launched an incursion into the area.

The United Nations has suspended food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafah due to a lack of supplies and an untenable security situation caused by Israel’s expanding military operation. It warned that humanitarian operations across the territory were nearing collapse.

When asked if he was referring to Israeli military operations, Dujarric said he spoke to a colleague at UNRWA just before the briefing in New York and “they’re not sticking around to see who’s doing the firing.” Most of the trucks in an aid convoy were stripped of all their goods on the way to a warehouse in central Gaza, the WFP said. The first aid transported by sea had entered the besieged enclave on Friday.

The WFP was now reevaluating logistics and security measures and looking for alternate routes within Gaza, said spokesperson Abeer Etefa. It was working with the US Agency for International Development to coordinate the deliveries.

 

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