UN aid trucks will be entering Gaza directly from Israeli territory starting on Sunday for the first time since the attack by Hamas on October 7, according to Israeli authorities.
Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said that UN aid trucks will undergo security checks and be transferred directly to Gaza via the Kerem Shalom goods crossing.
“This will increase the daily volume of humanitarian aid entering Gaza and being delivered to the people of Gaza,” COGAT said in a post on X on Sunday.
Kerem Shalom is one of two Israeli crossings where humanitarian aid trucks had been inspected this week but not allowed to enter Gaza directly. Instead, they had been sent back to enter Gaza via the Rafah crossing from Egypt.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office first announced on Friday that aid would be allowed through the Kerem Shalom crossing, saying that the cabinet “temporarily approved the unloading of the trucks on the Gaza side of the ‘Kerem Shalom’ crossing instead of returning them to Rafah.”
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