The first humanitarian aid convoy to be sent to the besieged Gaza Strip since war broke out there began moving through the Rafah border crossing from Egypt on Saturday after days of diplomatic wrangling over conditions for delivering the relief.
The United Nations said the 20-truck convoy included life-saving supplies that would be received by the Palestinian Red Crescent while Palestinian group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, has said the delivery included medicine and limited amounts of food.
Rafah is the main route in and out of the Gaza Strip that is not controlled by Israel, and the focus of efforts to deliver aid to Gaza’s two point three million residents.
U.N. officials say at least a hundred trucks a day are needed in Gaza to cover urgent needs, and that any delivery of aid needs to be sustained and at scale.
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