1:04 a.m. ET, November 26, 2023
According to the United Nations, 61 trucks are delivering aid to the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday
From CNN’s Richard Roth: Relief trucks drive down a street in Rafah, Gaza, on Saturday. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Portal
According to the United Nations, 61 trucks delivered food, water and emergency medical supplies to northern Gaza on Saturday. This is the largest number of trucks to reach the north since the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7.
On the second day of the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, 11 ambulances, three coaches and a flatbed went to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City to help with evacuations, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement on Saturday explanation with.
According to the United Nations, two hundred trucks headed to the Nitzana border crossing with Egypt, while 187 entered Gaza as of 7 p.m. local time (12 p.m. ET).
It was also said that 129,000 liters of fuel had reached Gaza.
In an earlier statement, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said it received 187 trucks from the Egyptian Red Crescent on Saturday, sending the largest aid convoy to Gaza City and northern parts of the Strip since October 7.
The convoy was “loaded with food and non-food items, water, medicines for basic and emergency medical supplies, relief supplies that arrived via Rafah (Saturday) and from PRCS camps in the south,” the statement said , adding that it had successfully distributed the aid.
The PRCS added that it had received 1,946 aid trucks in Gaza since October 21.