Overview

• Overnight between Friday and Saturday, 77 World Food Programme trucks carrying flour were intercepted by hungry civilians in Netzarim and Khan Yunis
• A WFP spokesperson told the BBC that the people who hijacked the trucks were desperate and couldn’t wait for official distribution
• From early March to mid-May, Israel’s full blockade cut off food and medicine entry into Gaza, intensifying the humanitarian emergency
• Israel’s newly created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, tasked with overseeing aid distribution, has struggled with operational failures since its launch
• UN agencies warn that the volume of food entering Gaza in recent weeks remains far below the scale needed to meet civilian needs