The UN has planned new routes within the Gaza Strip to transport aid from a US-built floating pier after crowds of desperate Palestinians intercepted 11 trucks, causing a halt to deliveries that continued for a third day on Tuesday.

The temporary pier was anchored to a Gaza beach on Thursday as Israel comes under growing global pressure to allow aid supplies into the enclave, where famine looms.

Operations began on Friday, and 10 aid trucks were driven by UN contractors to a World Food Programme warehouse in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

But on Saturday, only five trucks made it to the warehouse after 11 others were intercepted.