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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem

Civil order ‘starting to break down’ in Gaza as people raid UN warehouses

Palestinians carrying boxes
Palestinians take supplies from a UN-run aid centre in Deir al-Balah on Saturday, after three weeks of a near-total blockade by Israel. Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images

Order is beginning to collapse in the besieged Gaza Strip after thousands of desperate people raided UN warehouses in search of food, as the international criminal court’s top prosecutor said impeding relief supplies to the population may constitute a crime under the court’s jurisdiction.

Wheat, flour and hygiene supplies were taken from on Saturday from four UN-run centres across the blockaded 25- by 7-mile strip, home to more than 2 million trapped people, Thomas White, Gaza director for the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), said on Sunday.

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