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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Israel: 370 trucks of aid entered Gaza yesterday, hundreds still awaiting collection
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Some 370 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip yesterday through the Kerem Shalom and Zikim crossings, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities (COGAT) says.
According to COGAT, the Defense Ministry body that coordinates humanitarian matters in the Gaza Strip, about 350 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.
“The contents of hundreds of trucks are still awaiting collection on the Gazan side of the crossings,” COGAT says.
Another 180 pallets of aid — about 6-9 trucks’ worth — were airdropped by Jordan, the UAE, Germany, Belgium, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Indonesia in Gaza yesterday, according to the IDF. Each pallet has about one ton of food.
Similar amounts of aid deliveries have been reported daily for approximately the past week.
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.
COGAT also says that “tankers of UN fuel entered for the operation of essential humanitarian systems” yesterday.
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