The United Nations has said that trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza after a truce between Israel and Hamas went into effect. Efforts are also underway for the release of hostages.
A team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was on its way to collect from Hamas the first hostages to go free under the ceasefire deal. News reports say the Israeli military has set up three locations near the northern, central and southern edges of Gaza in Erez, Re’im and Kerem Shalom to take charge of the hostages.
At the same time, vehicles from the ICRC have arrived at Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank ahead of anticipated releases of Palestinian prisoners.
UN aid official Jonathan Whittall, interim chief of the UN’s OCHA aid agency for the Palestinian territories, said on X that the first trucks of supplies started entering” minutes after the ceasefire took effect today.
Reports from Egypt said that around 197 trucks of aid and five of fuel entered through the crossing of Kerem Shalom between Israel and Gaza and that of al-Oga and Nitzana between Egypt and Israel.
