Gaza Receives First Aid Trucks Since Hamas Attack as Egypt Border Opens Briefly

A convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza for the first time since the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel by Hamas militants. 

Egyptian officials said 20 trucks filled with medical supplies and some food crossed into Gaza on Saturday morning before Egypt closed the border again. Citizens of the U.S. and other foreign countries stuck in Gaza weren’t able to enter Egypt, the officials said.

Humanitarian agencies warned that Saturday’s aid deliveries fell far short of what is needed to sustain Gaza’s more than two million residents, about half of whom have been displaced from their homes amid sustained airstrikes by the Israeli military.