Security breakdown culminated in incident in which Israeli troops opened fire
It was dark when roughly 30 trucks of food reached an Israeli checkpoint on Al Rashid Street in Gaza City, a stretch of Mediterranean road dotted just four months ago with hotels, wedding halls and ice cream stands. But around 4am on February 29, videos shared by Palestinians show, it was a dystopian landscape — hungry men scrambling over buildings destroyed by the Israeli military, lighting fires to keep warm and searching for food to take home to their families.
That humanitarian crisis has been deepened by factors directly within the control of the Israeli military, said Jamie McGoldrick, the UN’s humanitarian co-ordinator for the Middle East, who was appointed late last year by the Security Council to help alleviate the suffering in Gaza. The most urgent problem, he said, was co-ordinating aid distribution inside the enclave with Israeli forces.
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