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Israel Cites Aid Backlog in Gaza
(Reuters) Michelle Nichols - A backlog of 1,150 truckloads of humanitarian aid is waiting to be collected from the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Gaza, Israel said Wednesday. Another 50 aid trucks are awaiting collecting from the Palestinian side of the Erez crossing in northern Gaza. UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said UN trucks that manage to pick up aid "are doing it often at great cost, because they are being either looted or attacked by criminal elements. Some aid is getting through, but very little." A top UN aid official, Muhannad Hadi, visited Gaza and "saw groups of men with sticks waiting for trucks to leave the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza. All the trucks that he passed were badly damaged, with broken windshields, mirrors and hoods," Dujarric said. Hadi also saw bags of fortified flour from the World Food Program and UNRWA scattered alongside the road from Kerem Shalom into Gaza.