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SvennoJ on 20 January 2025
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Over 630 aid trucks enter Gaza on first day of ceasefire but still ‘no time to lose’: UN

More than 630 trucks transporting humanitarian supplies entered the Gaza Strip on Sunday, with at least 300 of them travelling to the territory’s besieged and bombed north, the UN’s aid chief Tom Fletcher said.

But the UN’s undersecretary-general for humanitarian relief also warned that there is still “no time to lose” in getting aid into Gaza.

“After 15 months of relentless war, the humanitarian needs are staggering,” Fletcher said on social media.


Trucks carrying humanitarian aid arrive in the Gaza Strip on Sunday

Palestine Red Crescent sends aid trucks, builds shelters in Gaza

The Palestine Red Crescent Society has trucks waiting in Jordan and Egypt as well as the occupied West Bank loaded with food, water, tents, and medical supplies.

Spokeswoman Nebal Farsakh said there are no firm numbers on how many trucks have entered the Gaza Strip, but said the organisation is coordinating with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, the Egyptian Red Crescent, and Jordanian Red Crescent.

She said healthcare is a priority after most of it “collapsed” because of the 15-month war.

“The medical supplies and medications, these will be going to support the work of the Palestine Crescent at our hospitals and medical points in addition to a new field hospital we are currently establishing in Gaza in order to support the people there, especially as the healthcare system in northern Gaza has collapsed,” Farsakh told Al Jazeera, speaking from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

“The majority of hospitals were taken out of service, and now there’s expectation that thousands of families will be going back to Gaza City and the north, and we need to be prepared to provide healthcare services for the displaced families there.”



Gaza’s first responders scour debris for 10,000 missing bodies

Gaza’s civil defence agency has provided an update on the situation in the besieged Strip:

  • 99 of its rescuers were killed in Israeli attacks and 319 wounded, including dozens who sustained permanent injuries.
  • 27 members have been detained by Israeli forces and their fate remains unknown.
  • Civil defence crews recovered more than 97,000 injured Palestinians from bombed sites over the course of the 15-month war.
  • About 2,840 bodies “evaporated without a trace” from Israeli weapons that unleashed temperatures between 7,000-9,000 degrees Celsius (12,000-16,000 Fahrenheit) – “melting all at the centre of the explosion”.
  • The search for more than 10,000 bodies buried under the rubble of houses and buildings is now under way. These have not been recorded in official statistics.