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Screenshots of a video showed Israelis blocking the way for aid trucks and throwing aid packages on the ground. Credit: KAN2COME/Reuters

A shipment of humanitarian aid bound for Gaza was intercepted and looted by Israelis, who opposed sending aid to Palestinians living in the besieged area.

Video from the Tarqumiya checkpoint near Hebron in the West Bank, where the convoy passed, shows at least two looted trucks, with sacks and boxes of food strewn across the road.

Other images showed people blocking the path of aid trucks and trampling boxes and throwing aid packages on the ground.

It is unknown whether the aid came from Jordan or the Palestinian Autonomous Government.

The Regavim movement, which opposes aid transfers to Gaza, said: “We will not be a ‘silver platter’ to the Palestinian Autonomous Government.”

He said: “It is incomprehensible to the heart and mind that precisely on the day of remembrance of Israeli soldiers and victims of hostilities, the Israeli government is blocking a supply route from the Palestinian Autonomous Government in Hebron to Hamas terrorists in Gaza. “Opens.”

Activists from Regavim and another group, Tsav 9, participated in disrupting the convoy.

Israeli police said they had launched an investigation and arrested several “activists” in connection with the interception.

The United States escalated the incident to the Israeli government.

“We firmly believe that aid cannot and should not be interfered with,” US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said at a news conference.

“We have raised this incident with the Israeli government and hope it will take appropriate action,” he said.

The department had previously condemned several other attacks on aid convoys by Israeli activists and called on Israel to hold alleged perpetrators accountable.

Caught in the middle of the war between Israel and Hamas, Palestinians are struggling to get enough food and water to survive. According to the World Food Programme, northern Gaza is now in the midst of “complete famine”.

According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, half of Gaza’s population is expected to face catastrophic hunger by mid-July, and all 2.2 million people will be unable to meet their food needs.