Children in Gaza are “bearing the heaviest burden”, the UN’s Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) said in a statement following the looting of four trucks on 18 September. 

According to the agency, armed individuals threatened the drivers of the trucks at gun point in Gaza City as they were preparing to deliver Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) for malnourished children enduring famine.

“This theft has denied at least 2,700 severely and acutely malnourished children of life-saving RUTF – vital supplies at a time when famine has been declared in the north of Gaza and the ongoing military operation is creating further displacement and adding to the devastating impact on children,” Unicef added.