Overview

• The accident occurred in Nuseirat during the early hours of August 6 as hundreds gathered around a single aid truck, causing it to topple onto civilians seeking food.
• The Gaza government accused the Israeli army of deliberately sealing main routes and diverting aid vehicles onto unsafe, previously bombarded tracks.
• Local Civil Defense officials reported that surging, hunger-driven crowds climbed onto the moving truck and its uneven path led drivers to lose control.
• Israel’s military said it had airdropped 110 pallets of food in recent days, a method the UN and relief agencies criticize as too costly, limited and risky.
• The United Nations has renewed urgent calls to open all crossings and ports to increase humanitarian and commercial deliveries amid growing famine warnings