New routes planned after Gaza aid from US-built pier halted

The United Nations is looking at new routes within the besieged Gaza Strip to transport aid from a US-built floating pier, which remains unused since Saturday after opening on Friday last week.

"Crowds had stopped the trucks at various points along the way. There was... what I think I would refer to as self-distribution," UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York on Tuesday.

"These trucks were traveling through areas where there'd been no aid. I think people feared that they would never see aid. They grabbed what they could," he said.