The UN's Palestinian refugee agency has reported mass looting of aid warehouses in Gaza, saying thousands of people have broken into distribution centers to take flour and other "basic survival items" as the ongoing Israel-Hamas war makes their situation increasingly desperate.

UNRWA Affairs director Thomas White said on Sunday in a statement:

"This is a worrying sign that civil order is starting to break down after three weeks of war and a tight siege on Gaza. People are scared, frustrated and desperate. Several warehouses, including a facility in Deir al-Balah that stores aid brought in by humanitarian convoys from Egypt, were looted on Saturday. Tensions and fear are made worse by the cuts in the phones and internet communications lines. They feel that they are on their own, cut off from their families inside Gaza and the rest of the world."

Just over 80 trucks have crossed into the strip from Egypt since humanitarian aid began trickling in a week ago. No trucks could be brought in on Saturday because the loss of telecommunications services blocked the UNRWA from coordinating the aid convoy's passage. Phone and internet services were restored as of Sunday morning, the agency said.

White said:

"Supplies on the market are running out while the humanitarian aid coming into the Gaza Strip on trucks from Egypt is insufficient. The needs of the communities are immense, if only for basic survival, while the aid we receive is meager and inconsistent. We call for a regular and steady flow line of humanitarian supplies into the Gaza Strip to respond to the needs, especially as tensions and frustrations grow."

The UNRWA added that the current system for receiving aid trucks is "geared to fail." White claimed that there are too few trucks, the inspection process is taking too long, and the supplies coming in don't match the needs of aid organizations.

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At least 60 people were arrested after an anti-Israeli mob stormed an airport in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Sunday night, Russia's Interior Ministry has said.

"More than 150 active participants of the riots have been identified, 60 of them have been detained and taken in for further investigation," law enforcement authorities said in a statement released early Monday.

The night before, hundreds of people gathered outside the Makhachkala International Airport in the majority-Muslim republic of Dagestan, throwing objects at police officers and running onto the tarmac in search of Israelis and Jews rumored to be on an arriving flight from Tel Aviv.

Nine police officers were injured during the clashes, two of whom have been hospitalized, according to the Interior Ministry.

Dagestan's Health Ministry said more than 20 people were injured, including civilians, two of whom were in critical condition.

Around 1,200 people were estimated to have taken part in Sunday night's storming of the airport, Russia's RBC news website reported, citing two anonymous Interior Ministry sources in Dagestan.

According to the two sources, police and other law enforcement agents managed to clear the airport of rioters by 1:45 a.m. Moscow time on Monday, around seven hours after the unrest broke out.

Russia's civil aviation agency said it planned to reopen Makhachkala International Airport for arriving flights by Tuesday "after a thorough inspection of the terminal, airfield and adjacent territory." It had initially planned to close down the airport until Nov. 6.

Dagestan's Governor Sergei Melikov on Monday blamed "external enemies of our country" for stoking the unrest, claiming that a Telegram channel run from inside Ukraine had spread rumors about "Israeli refugees" arriving in Dagestan.

"I'm ashamed today," he said in a briefing with reporters, telling those involved in the unrest on Sunday to "wash away their disgrace" by going to fight in Russia's war against Ukraine.

The Telegram channel, which Melikov identified by the name Utro Dagestan, denied his claims.

Russia's Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said its chairman Alexander Bastrykin had ordered his local subordinates to closely monitor their probe into the "organization of mass unrest," a charge that carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that President Vladimir Putin would convene a meeting with top officials later in the day to discuss the events in Dagestan, which he described as having been sparked by "attempts from the outside to divide Russian society."

State-run media outlets have largely ignored Sunday night's storming of the airport, with the independent news outlet Agentstvo reporting that only one of Russia's three major broadcasters ran a small story on the event as of Monday morning.

Regions across the North Caucasus, but especially Dagestan, have witnessed a series of anti-Israeli demonstrations in the weeks since Israel launched a relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas fighters' bloody attack inside Israel on Oct. 7.