Gaza warehouse broken into by 'hordes of hungry people' says WFP

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Video footage shows crowds breaking into the warehouse and taking bags of flour and cartons of food.

Gaza warehouse broken into by 'hordes of hungry people', says WFP
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Barbara Plett Usher, Emma Rossiter and Yolande Knell in Jerusalem
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Watch: AFP footage appears to show a people removing sacks from UN warehouse in Gaza
The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) says that "hordes of hungry people" have broken into a food supply warehouse in central Gaza.

Two people are reported to have died and several others injured in the incident, the programme said, adding that it was still confirming details.

Footage showed thousands of people breaking into the Al-Ghafari warehouse in Deir Al-Balah and taking bags of flour and cartons of food as gunshots rang out. It was not immediately clear where the gunshots came from or who fired them.

In a statement, the WFP said humanitarian needs in Gaza had "spiralled out of control" after an almost three-month Israeli blockade that was eased last week.
The programme added: "Gaza needs an immediate scale-up of food assistance. This is the only way to reassure people that they will not starve."

The WFP said it had "consistently warned of alarming and deteriorating conditions on the ground, and the risks imposed by limiting humanitarian aid to hungry people in desperate need of assistance".
The UN has argued that a surge of aid like the one during the recent ceasefire between Israeli and Hamas would reduce the threat of looting by hungry people and allow it to make full use of its well-established network of distribution across the Gaza Strip.

Israel's ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, said the UN was behaving in a "mafia-like" way and accused it of threatening aid agencies working with the GHF.

The UN has said Israeli's new aid distribution system in Gaza is "essentially engineered scarcity", adding that it operates only in the south of the territory when most of the population is in the north.

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