Armed men hijacked dozens of aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip overnight and hundreds of desperate Palestinians joined in to take supplies, local aid groups said on Saturday as officials waited for Hamas to respond to the latest ceasefire proposals.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip blocked and offloaded dozens of food trucks, the U.N. World Food Program said Saturday, as desperation mounts following Israel’s monthslong blockade while talks of a

Gaza aid trucks have been swarmed by crowds of civilians. The World Food Programme has brought 77 vehicles loaded with flour into Gaza. The humanitarian organisation says the trucks were stopped along the journey as people were too desperate to visit distribution points for food.