COGAT: 236 aid trucks entered Strip Sunday, 550 still waiting to be collected

Israel’s civilian coordination agency for the Palestinian territories COGAT states that 236 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza Sunday, but the content of over 550 is still waiting to be collected by aid agencies in Gaza.

COGAT says the humanitarian aid trucks were transferred from Egypt to the Gazan side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing, in addition to seven tankers of fuel and six tankers of cooking gas.

“This is thanks to the UN aid organizations putting in a collective effort to collect the aid waiting on the Gazan side of Kerem Shalom,” COGAT says.

Israel has said there is no limit to the amount of assistance that can enter Gaza and that international aid groups are failing to properly distribute aid in the Strip. Israel has also said Hamas seizes humanitarian aid and distributes it, in order both to make money and to preserve its role as ruler of the Gaza Strip.

Aid groups accuse Israel of limiting aid access and say that it is increasingly dangerous to distribute assistance due to the breakdown of law and order in the Strip.

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