The UN’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, condemned an attack by the Israeli military on an UNRWA truck carrying humanitarian aid in Gaza, saying it “undermines desperate relief efforts”.

“Targeting humanitarian aid convoys is a flagrant [international humanitarian law] violation,” Albanese wrote on X.

The truck came under fire from the Israeli navy as it waited to carry food supplies into northern Gaza, where people are facing starvation.