For the second day in a row, trucks carrying aid cross the Rafah border from Egypt into the southern Gaza Strip.
The convoy comes a day after 20 trucks carried medical aid, food and water into the Palestinian enclave.
The United Nations has estimated about 100 trucks per day are needed to meet the needs of Gazans.
It was the second aid shipment into the Strip since the devastating October 7 Hamas onslaught on southern Israel, amid continued rocket fire from Gaza and as the number of confirmed hostages abducted and held in Gaza since the shock assault rose to 212.
The aid entered the Strip ahead of Israel’s looming ground offensive and as the IDF continued to carry out airstrikes on terror targets.
Israel says its offensive is aimed at destroying Hamas’s infrastructure, and has vowed to eliminate the entire terror group, which rules the Strip. It says it is targeting all areas where Hamas operates while seeking to minimize civilian casualties, and has urged residents of northern Gaza to evacuate southward ahead of the expected ground offensive.
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