Twenty dead and dozens injured after a truck carrying humanitarian aid overturned in the Gaza Strip.

Twenty people were killed and dozens injured when a truck carrying humanitarian aid overturned in the Gaza Strip, the Gaza government reported early Wednesday morning.

In a statement released by the Gaza Strip Government Media Office , the local authority blamed the Israeli army for closing roads and forcing aid trucks to travel on dangerous and unsafe roads.

"Despite the limited permits recently granted for the entry of some trucks, the (Israeli) occupation deliberately prevents them from being secured and prevents access to those who deserve it. Rather, it forces drivers onto routes filled with starving civilians who have been waiting for weeks for the most basic necessities of life, leading to attacks on these trucks and confiscation of their contents," the statement added.

According to local authorities, the truck overturned on the people who were trying to obtain some of the food the vehicle was carrying, which was also traveling on a road that "had been previously bombed."

The Gaza government described the incident as part of "deliberate criminal conduct" that has created "catastrophic conditions and chaos."

"Faced with the unprecedented humanitarian deterioration observed in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli occupation continues to commit the crime of mass starvation against more than 2.4 million people by continuing to close border crossings and preventing the entry of humanitarian aid and basic materials, as part of a systematic policy aimed at breaking the resolve of our people and dismantling their social fabric," the statement added.

The Gaza Strip government expressed its urge to the international community to intervene "urgently to stop this crime, enforce the full, safe, and sustainable opening of border crossings, and ensure the flow of food, medical assistance, and fuel for life without obstacles or political conditions."

The incident occurred hours after the UN reiterated its calls for the use of "all available ports" to bring more humanitarian aid and commercial goods into the Gaza Strip in the face of the growing hunger among the Palestinian population.

For its part, the Israeli army said Tuesday, August 5, that a total of 110 pallets of food were airdropped into Gaza in the last few hours , despite the fact that major organizations and the UN reject this distribution method as "expensive, insufficient, and dangerous."

Gazan hospitals received at least 52 deaths from Israeli fire on Tuesday, 28 of whom were people seeking food, according to sources at those facilities. Later, media outlets such as the Qatari network Al Jazeera raised the death toll to 83, of whom 58 were seeking humanitarian aid.