Some 320 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, more than 330 trucks’ worth of aid were also collected by the United Nations and other international organizations from the Gaza sides of the crossings yesterday to be distributed.
Another 161 pallets of aid — about 5-8 trucks’ worth — were airdropped by Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, 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.
COGAT also says that “tankers of UN fuel entered for the operation of essential humanitarian systems” yesterday.
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