The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced that “for the first time since March, cooking gas entered the Strip,” marking a rare breakthrough in the flow of life-saving supplies.
According to OCHA, trucks carrying tents, frozen meat, fresh fruit, flour, and medicines also crossed into Gaza during the day — basic necessities that had been deliberately denied to the population under the Zionist regime’s suffocating siege.
The agency said the UN and its partners “distributed hundreds of thousands of hot meals and bread bundles – both in the south and in the north,” amid desperate conditions for displaced families.
OCHA noted that the easing of movement and access restrictions allowed humanitarian teams to “pre-position medical and emergency supplies to where they are needed most, assess key roads for explosive hazards, and support displaced families in flood-prone areas preparing for the winter season.”
The UN confirmed that “Israeli approval for more aid to move forward” has been secured, expanding the cleared pipeline to about “190,000 metric tons” of food, medicine, and shelter items — a fraction of what is needed after nearly a year of systematic devastation.
“This is just the beginning,” OCHA stated, promising to broaden aid delivery “to virtually everyone across Gaza.”
The limited opening followed US President Donald Trump’s announcement Wednesday that the Israeli regime and the Palestinian resistance group Hamas had agreed to the first stage of his 20-point ceasefire plan.
The plan calls for the release of all Israeli captives in exchange for roughly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the enclave.
The first phase took effect on Friday.
A second phase proposes the creation of a new governing body in Gaza, the deployment of a multinational force, and the disarmament of Palestinian resistance factions.
Since October 2023, relentless Israeli genocidal war have killed more than 67,600 Palestinians — mostly women and children — turning much of Gaza into rubble and pushing its population to the edge of survival.