Gaza crisis: ‘People are desperate, hungry and terrified’, UNRWA chief says

The head of the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency said on Thursday hungry people were stopping its aid trucks in Gaza and that it was getting harder to provide aid to people in its shelters because of crowding outside them. “People are stopping aid trucks, taking the food and eating it straight away,” Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA commissioner-general, told journalists at a refugee event in Geneva. “Everywhere you go, people are desperate, hungry and are terrified,” he said.