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It says hundreds of pallets of supplies are waiting to be picked up by aid agencies on the Gaza side of the border and says some aid trucks are being looted by armed men.

It took up just one square metre on a pallet but represented two years of effort and had a wholesale value of £35,000.

“Some will have to remain in place. We’ve always had homelessness. The city housing navigator needs to stay in place. I don’t know if we need to have the pallet shelters for ever.”

Among them: beaded condensation dripping over products, employees moving racks of coolers between lines without changing personal protective equipment and a sample collected from a pallet jack that tested positive for listeria.

The 41 pallets of bananas had just been shipped to Portsmouth on a cargo ship from Colombia and then delivered by lorries to London.