Over 10,000 help vehicles have entered Gaza since ceasefire: UN

Vans carrying help transfer, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah within the southern Gaza Strip, February 5, 2025.
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Greater than 10,000 help vehicles have crossed into Gaza since a fragile ceasefire took maintain on January 19, the United Nations humanitarian chief stated on Thursday (February 6, 2025).

“We have moved over 10,000 vehicles within the two weeks for the reason that ceasefire, an enormous surge,” Tom Fletcher stated on X.

The UN Below-Secretary-Normal for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Aid Coordinator added that he himself was “about to cross into northern Gaza with a convoy of help”.

“Thanks to the many individuals making it doable to get these vehicles of important, lifesaving meals, drugs and tents by,” he stated.

His feedback come as Israel and Hamas put together to barter the second part of the ceasefire settlement, which has paused 15 months of relentless preventing and bombing, unleashed after Hamas’s lethal October 7, 2023 assault.

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That assault resulted within the deaths of 1,210 folks on the Israeli facet, principally civilians, in keeping with an AFP tally based mostly on official Israeli figures.

Israel’s retaliatory response has killed a minimum of 47,518 folks in Gaza, nearly all of them civilians, in keeping with the Hamas-run territory’s Well being Ministry. The UN considers these figures to be dependable.

With only a trickle of help coming into the territory earlier than the ceasefire deal, worldwide help organisations repeatedly reported disaster ranges of starvation within the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip and warned of looming famine.

The truce has led to a surge of meals, gasoline, medical and different help being allowed into Gaza, and enabled folks displaced by the warfare to return to the north of the Palestinian territory.

Below the Gaza truce’s ongoing 42-day first part, 18 hostages have in the meantime been freed to date in alternate for some 600 principally Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.