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GAZA – Thousands of Gaza residents are reported to have broken into warehouses and distribution centres in the south and middle of the strip, taking flour and other basic supplies.
BBC reported that this had been confirmed by the United Nations (U.N) Relief Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in a statement issued on Sunday.
“This is a worrying sign that civil order is starting to break down after three weeks of war and a tight siege on Gaza.
“People are scared, frustrated and desperate. Tensions and fear are made worse by the cuts in the phones and internet communication lines,” UNRWA said in a statement.
The UNRWA statement however did not specify which warehouses were raided or when this happened.
The UN’s humanitarian Chief, Martin Griffiths, said on Thursday that aid had been “barely trickling” into Gaza in the past week, while Israeli bombardment was intensifying.
Meanwhile, phone lines and internet connections were slowly returning to Gaza after more than a day of almost total communications blackout.
Connectivity was cut as Israel intensified its bombardment of the territory, and began a large ground operation involving tanks and troops.
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said this marked the “second stage” of what he described would be a “long and difficult” war with Hamas.
He confirmed Israeli commanders were deployed “all over the Gaza Strip.”
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