Overview

• Gaza civil defence spokesperson Mahmud Bassal said the truck flipped around midnight while hundreds queued for aid, leaving 20 dead and dozens injured.
• Hamas’s media office claimed Israel directed the convoy along unsafe, previously bombed roads to engineer “starvation and chaos.”
• The crash brings the toll of aid-related deaths since May to more than 875 after a U.S.- and Israeli-backed private distribution system supplanted UN relief efforts.
• UN agencies have boycotted the new network over concerns about bias and civilian safety, prompting a U.S. war crimes investigation.
• Humanitarian groups report Gaza needs 600 aid trucks daily but receives an average of just 85, heightening fears of famine and disease.