World Food Programme says northern Gaza aid convoy blocked

According to the World Food Programme (WFP), the IDF is blocking food aid from being delivered. 

The UN agency says the convoy of 14 lorries was turned away at a checkpoint and was later looted by crowds of “desperate people.” 

The report comes just a day after the WHO said children are dying of starvation in northern Gaza. 

The WFP released a statement saying their efforts to “deliver desperately needed food supplies” to the area resumed on Tuesday “but were largely unsuccessful”.

After a three-hour wait, the convoy was turned back by the IDF. Trucks were then rerouted and “later stopped by a large crowd of desperate people who looted the food, taking around 200 tons from the trucks”, the WFP added.

It was the WFP’s first attempt to deliver supplies to northern Gaza in a fortnight.