Morocco secures land route to deliver aid to Gaza: Report

A shipment of humanitarian aid from Morocco for Palestinians in Gaza began entering the besieged enclave via a land route on Tuesday.

The aid travelled through the Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel, marking the first time that crossing has been used for aid in five months of war, a Moroccan diplomatic source told Reuters.

The 40 tonnes of aid was being delivered by truck into northern Gaza along a route that the Rabat government has been able to secure, as it had established diplomatic relations with Israel, the source said.

The source told the news agency that the move shows Morocco's "connections in Israel serve the cause of peace and defend the rights of Palestinians".

Morocco was one of several Arab nations alongside the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain that normalised diplomatic relations with Israel under the agreement brokered by the Donald Trump administration.

In exchange for normalisation, the US recognised Moroccan sovereignty over the territory of Western Sahara, and last year Israel announced it was also recognising Rabat's sovereignty over the territory.