The United Nations (UN) announced that 61 trucks delivered food, water and emergency medical supplies to the north of the Gaza Strip on Saturday (25), the largest number of vehicles to arrive in the north of the region since Hamas attacks on Israel, on October 7th.
As the second day of the truce unfolded, 11 ambulances, three cars and a flatbed truck headed to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City to help with evacuations, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in communicated.
Two hundred trucks headed to the Nitzana border crossing with Egypt, while 187 entered Gaza at around 7pm local time, according to the UN.
With this, 129 thousand liters of fuel also crossed into Gaza.
In a previous statement, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said it received 187 trucks from the Egyptian Red Crescent on Saturday and dispatched the largest aid convoy to Gaza City and the northern part of the region since October 7.
The institution highlighted that the convoy was “loaded with food and non-food products, water, medicines for primary health care and emergency medical supplies, coming from aid that arrived through Rafah (Saturday), as well as from warehouses in the People’s Republic of China in the south,” adding that it successfully distributed aid.
The Red Crescent added that it has received 1,946 trucks of aid in Gaza since October 21.
Source: CNN Brasil
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