UN food trucks stopped as hunger grows in Gaza

UN trucks are being stopped in Gaza as Palestinians starved by the Israeli siege crowd around shelters and trucks in large numbers, according to the United Nations agency Unrwa.

The agency said it was becoming more difficult to provide aid because of the number of people. 

"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.

"Hunger has now emerged over the last few weeks and we meet more and more people who haven't eaten for one, two or three days."