Hijazi described what he called 15 minutes of terror Thursday at the center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the private contractor that Israel says will replace the U.N. in feeding Gaza’s more than 2 million people.

Hunger is so widespread among Gaza’s 2.1mn people and food so scarce that humanitarian agencies are concerned the chaos may deepen, especially as the new Israel-backed Gaza Huma

The residents of the Gaza Strip are facing severe shortages of food in the besieged coastal region that has been in the middle of a grinding war for more than 600 days. As hunger grows, hundreds of Palestinians stormed a United Nations warehouse on Wednesday in search of food.