LONDON: A French academic has said he witnessed Israel enabling the looting of aid trucks in Gaza.
Jean-Pierre Filiu spent more than a month in the Palestinian enclave from December 2024, which formed the basis for his book “A Historian in Gaza,” which was published this month in English.
The professor of Middle East studies at France’s Sciences Po university was able to avoid detection by Israel despite a ban on international media entering Gaza.
He claims in the book to have witnessed attacks by the Israeli military on aid convoys and their security staff guarding them from looters.
His testimony backs UN claims that attacks on police in Gaza by Israel aided looters at a time when mass hunger threatened much of the enclave.
