The trickle of food aid Israel allows to enter Gaza is seized by Palestinians risking their lives under fire, looted by gangs or diverted in chaotic circumstances rather than reaching those most in need, UN agencies, aid groups and analysts say, AFP reports.

“Hunger has driven people to turn on each other. People are fighting each other with knives,” Amir Zaqot, who came seeking aid, told AFP.

Some of the aid is looted by gangs — who often directly attack warehouses — and diverted to traders who resell it at exorbitant prices, according to several humanitarian sources and experts.

“It becomes this sort of Darwinian social experiment of the survival of the fittest,” said Muhammad Shehada, visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).

“People who are the most starved in the world and do not have the energy must run and chase after a truck and wait for hours and hours in the sun and try to muscle people and compete for a bag of flour,” he said.