A convoy of lorries carrying food supplies to the north of the embattled Gaza Strip was turned away by Israeli soldiers and then looted by “a large crowd of desperate people,” the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. The WFP said that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) turned away its first food convoy to Gaza’s north in weeks after a three-hour wait at the Wadi Gaza checkpoint “After being turned away the trucks were rerouted and later stopped by a large crowd of desperate people who looted the food, taking around 200 tons, from the trucks,” the WFP said in a statement. “Although today’s c…