The United Nations has not received any aid from a U.S.-built pier in Gaza for the past two days after an incident on Saturday in which food was taken from 11 out of 16 trucks before they reached a U.N. warehouse, a U.N. official told Reuters on Monday. "We need to make sure that the necessary security and logistical arrangements are in place before we proceed," said the U.N. official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The U.N. said that 10 truckloads of food aid - transported from the pier site by U.N. contractors - were received on Friday at a World Food Programme warehouse in Deir El Balah in Gaza, a short distance away. But on Saturday, only five truckloads of aid made it to the warehouse after 11 others were cleaned out by Palestinians during the journey through an area that the U.N. official said has been hard to access with humanitarian aid. "There were some people, they've seen the trucks. They've not seen trucks for a while," the official said. "They just basically mounted on the trucks and helped themselves to some of the food parcels."
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