Israel says 230 trucks of aid entered Gaza Tuesday

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

Nearly 230 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip yesterday through the Kerem Shalom and Zikim crossings, says Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities, known as COGAT.

According to COGAT, some 250 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.

Similar amounts of aid deliveries have been reported daily in the past few weeks.

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, and that it coordinated the entry and exit of humanitarian aid workers rotating in and out of Gaza.

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