内容摘要："Brewers in UK say Christmas is their peak trading time, for us Christmas is just a blip compared to the TT," he said.

"Brewers in UK say Christmas is their peak trading time, for us Christmas is just a blip compared to the TT," he said.

"The situation was extremely difficult. They only allowed 50 people to cross at a time," one man told BBC Arabic's Middle East daily radio programme. "In the end, chaos broke out - people climbed over the gates, attacked others, and took all the [aid].""It was a humiliating experience," he added.

A woman said "people are exhausted - willing to do anything, even risk their lives - just to find food and feed their children."The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops had fired "warning shots in the area outside the compound"."Control over the situation was established, food distribution operations are expected to continue as planned, and the safety of IDF troops was not compromised," it stated.

Gaza's Hamas-run Government Media Office said Israel's efforts to distribute aid had "failed miserably". It also denied that Hamas had tried to stop civilians reaching the GHF's sites.At a news conference in New York, UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric called the footage "heartbreaking".

"We and our partners have a detailed, principled, operationally sound plan supported by member states to get aid to a desperate population. We continue to stress that a meaningful scale-up of humanitarian operations is essential to stave off famine and meet the needs of all civilians wherever they are," he added.

The US state department's spokeswoman called the UN's criticism "the height of hypocrisy".The boy's mother described his release as "a miracle", adding that the weeks he had been in captivity had been "horrible, a nightmare".

Many dissident rebel groups such as the Frente Jaime Martínez finance themselves through extortion and kidnappings for ransom, as well as drug trafficking.The commander of the regional police force, Brigadier General Carlos Oviedo, said the boy's stepfather had been the real target of the kidnappers, but that they had seized the boy when they found that the stepfather was not at home.

The stepfather, a local merchant, told local media that he was not involved in any illicit business and said he did not know why he had been targeted.It is not clear if a ransom was paid for the boy's release.