Civil order ‘starting to break down’ in Gaza as people raid UN warehouses
Head of refugee agency says wheat, flour and hygiene supplies taken as Israel continues its bombardment
Order is beginning to collapse in the besieged Gaza Strip after thousands of desperate people raided UN warehouses in search of food, as the international criminal court's top prosecutor said impeding relief supplies to the population may constitute a crime under the court's jurisdiction.
Wheat, flour and hygiene supplies were taken from on Saturday from four UN-run centres across the blockaded 25- by 7-mile strip, home to more than 2 million trapped people, Thomas White, Gaza director for the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), said on Sunday.
A UN peacekeeper on the Blue Line between Israel and Lebanon was injured in cross-border fire, the world body said.
Rishi Sunak and Emmanuel Macron stressed the importance of getting urgent humanitarian support" into Gaza.
Jack Sullivan, Joe Biden's national security adviser, said the US believed there should be humanitarian pauses to get hostages out, potentially to get aid in".
A delegation of families of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas urged President Isaac Herzog to keep their plight at the top of the political agenda.
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