Desperate civilians in Gaza climb over trucks and surround relief convoy for food, video shows

People climbed over trucks and surrounded a relief aid convoy at a UN center in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood of northern Gaza on Thursday. CNN

Thousands of desperate civilians in the Gaza Strip surrounded a relief aid convoy at a UN center in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood of northern Gaza, as seen in CNN video footage on Thursday.

The aid convoy consisted of two trucks distributing aid just outside a center of the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), where people were seen climbing over them in desperation to get relief aid.

An elderly man named Abu Hassan told CNN that he came to get some flour, which he has had no access to for the last month, subsisting instead on just "bits of rice".

"We are in desperate need of flour; it has been a month since the last time I had flour. We are living on some bits of rice, and it is not enough and causes health problems for us. We need them to give us only flour and water; all these aids aren't enough, not even for one refugee school," he said.

Earlier this week, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) expressed “deep concerns” over the rapidly worsening food security situation in the Gaza Strip saying approximately 2.2 million residents are facing acute hunger