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‘It’s hell in a basket, I see it imploding,’ Gaza aid worker says
By Nicole Johnston, former Gaza-based correspondent
In southern Gaza, aid workers report that security is collapsing fast.
Sky News has received messages from a foreign aid worker in Rafah, who doesn’t want to be named for their own safety.
They said the looting of aid supplies has “raised the risk to red”.
The message said truck drivers delivering humanitarian aid were stopped by gunfire yesterday, and even when the driver stopped and said “take the truck”, he was beaten and his truck was smashed.
The aid worker said a gun was held to the driver’s head and blames groups based in Gaza for the violence.
The message continued: “An international lead convoy was attacked by gunfire twice and six looters were killed in the crowd surge.”
By all accounts, law and order has collapsed in Gaza as anarchy, chaos and desperation takes over.
Sky News was sent videos of looting “hot spots” in Gaza, taken over the last three days.
The source said trucks are being attacked through the Philadelphi Corridor (a narrow strip of land on the Egyptian-Gaza border).
There are also attacks near the Keram Shalom border crossing with Israel, as well as close to the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, where trucks are being targeted by Palestinian bedouins.
“They pulled knives on us and then shot at the truck,” the source said.