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UN confirms aid groups have picked up aid from some 90 trucks that entered Gaza
A worker unloads cargo from a truck carrying humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip at the offload area of the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and Gaza, May 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Aid groups have collected humanitarian aid carried by about 90 trucks, out of a total of nearly 200 that have entered Gaza since Israel began allowing limited goods in earlier this week, the United Nations confirms.
Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN Humanitarian agency OCHA, says the trucks that entered carried medicine, wheat flour and nutrition supplies.
Aid groups have faced significant challenges distributing the aid because of insecurity, the risk of looting and coordination issues with Israeli authorities, Laerke adds.
Most of the supplies have been sitting on the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel.
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