By World Israel News Staff
Armed criminal gangs are regularly ambushing trucks carrying humanitarian aid and stealing food meant for civilians, according to a New York Times report published on Monday.
Truck driver Hazem Isleem, who was part of a convoy of 100 trucks carrying aid, said that he had been attacked by looters, who forced him to drive to a nearby field.
There, he said, he was made to help the looters unload thousands of pounds of flour from his truck, as well assist in ransacking the other vehicles in the convoy.
“But the worst part was we weren’t able to deliver the food to the people.”
Awad Abid, a Gazan who said he had attempted to buy flour from looters, said he was threatened by the gang.
“I asked one of them for a sack of flour to feed my children, and he pointed a a pistol at me,” Abid told the Times.
He added that he had seen gunmen “guarding warehouses containing stolen cartons of UN-marked aid,” according to the report.
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