Aid entering Gaza nearly doubled Wednesday, army says

By Emanuel Fabian

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9 October 2025, 12:03 pm

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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Displaced Palestinians start their day in a makeshift camp by the beach in Al-Zawayda city, near Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip on October 9, 2025, following an overnight announcement of a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel to be signed in Egypt. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

Nearly 510 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza yesterday through Israel’s crossings with the Strip, almost twice the daily average, the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities (COGAT) says.

According to COGAT, over 300 trucks’ worth of aid were also collected by the United Nations and other international organizations from the Gaza side of the crossings yesterday to be distributed.

“This high volume of aid that entered followed the holidays in which the crossings were closed from the Israeli side,” COGAT says.

The UN has said 600 trucks of aid need to be distributed each day in order to properly feed the Strip’s roughly two million people amid the war.