In recent days, videos and images showing people in Gaza desperately trying to access food and other humanitarian aid have been circulating across social media.
On Wednesday the UN’s World Food Programme said two people had been killed after “hordes of hungry people” broke into one of their warehouses in central Gaza, in search of food. They said humanitarian needs had “spiraled out of control after 80 days of complete blockade” of aid into Gaza.
The previous day, footage showed a militarised aid compound near the southern town of Rafah being overrun by people trying to access supplies.
All this followed controversy around the launch of a US-Israeli backed…