Israel says over 450 aid trucks entered Gaza Tuesday, marking new high

By Emanuel Fabian

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9 April 2024, 9:42 pm Edit

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

Palestinians sell sweets in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 9, 2024. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

The Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) says that 468 trucks of humanitarian aid were inspected and transferred to the Gaza Strip today.

The hybrid civil-military unit says that this is the highest number of trucks that have entered in any one day since the start of the war, following yesterday’s high of 419 trucks.

Forty-seven trucks carrying food were “coordinated to northern Gaza overnight,” COGAT adds.

Over the past three days, more than 1,200 aid trucks were inspected by Israeli authorities and entered Gaza, it says.

COGAT also says 303 packages carrying “hundreds of thousands of meals” were airdropped over the Palestinian enclave today.