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Eight more aid trucks to enter Gaza via Egypt
27 October 2023 09:55 BST
A senior UN official confirmed to Reuters that eight more aid trucks carrying food, medicine and water will cross into the Gaza Strip.
“We have gotten in approximately 74 trucks. We’re expecting another eight or so today,” Lynn Hastings, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, told reporters in Geneva, according to Reuters.
Despite the slow trickle of aid making its way to Gaza, aid agencies said Gaza needs more aid to meet the besieged enclave's growing humanitarian need.
Before the war, aid agencies said 500 trucks entered Gaza each day via the Rafah crossing.