634 aid trucks enter Gaza under ceasefire deal

FILE: Humanitarian Aid to Gaza. (Photo: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0)

By Anadolu, Philippine News Agency

GAZA CITY, Palestine – Some 634 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip under a ceasefire deal since Sunday, a Palestinian source said Monday.

“Some 310 aid trucks reached northern Gaza, including fuel, medical supplies, food supplies, vegetables and fruits, while 324 trucks arrived in southern Gaza,” the source with Gaza’s Interior Ministry told Anadolu.

The ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas took effect on Sunday, suspending Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Under the deal, some 600 aid trucks will be allowed into Gaza on a daily basis along with the reopening of Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt on day seven of the agreement.

The three-phase deal includes a prisoner exchange and sustained calm, aiming for a permanent truce and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.

Nearly 47,000 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and over 110,700 others injured in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, according to local health authorities.

The Israeli war has left more than 11,000 people missing, with widespread destruction and a humanitarian crisis that has claimed the lives of many elderly people and children in one of the worst global humanitarian disasters ever.

In November, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.