Aid warehouses in Gaza looted as desperation grows and Israeli ground offensive widens

Gaza’s Health Ministry said the death toll among Palestinians has passed 8,000 – mostly women and minors

Smoke rises following Israeli bombardment on Gaza City, Sunday, October 29. Picture: AP Photo/Abed Khaled

Thousands of people broke into aid warehouses in Gaza to take basic food and hygiene products in a mark of growing desperation and the breakdown of public order three weeks into the war, a UN agency has said.

Tanks and infantry pushed into Gaza over the weekend as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a “second stage” in the conflict against Hamas, three weeks after the terror group launched a brutal incursion into Israel.