The United Nations reported Monday that over 310,000 Gazans were recorded moving northward as limited access restrictions were lifted amid the ongoing truce.
"From Friday until yesterday, our colleagues monitoring displacement recorded nearly 310,000 movements of people from southern to northern Gaza and about 23,000 movements in other directions," UN spokesperson Farhan Haq told reporters.
He said humanitarian teams were finally reaching areas that had been sealed off for months under the Israeli regime’s bombardment and siege.
"With the easing of movement and access restrictions in multiple places, we were able to pre-position medical and emergency supplies where they are needed most and assess key roads for explosive hazards," Haq said.
UN relief chief Tom Fletcher allocated an additional $11 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to sustain emergency aid in Gaza before winter.
"This follows last week’s $9 million allocation to ensure sufficient fuel supplies to keep life-saving services running across the Strip, bringing total recent CERF funding for Gaza to $20 million," Haq added.
Fletcher warned that "without fresh contributions to CERF, critical aid cannot keep flowing to people who rely on it."
Under the UN’s 60-day humanitarian plan, the organization and its partners aim to deliver food, water, medical care, and shelter "to people across the Strip, wherever they need our support."
Last week, US President Donald Trump announced that the Israeli regime and Hamas had accepted the first phase of his ceasefire proposal announced on September 29.
The plan’s first stage includes a ceasefire, the release of Israeli captives in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, and the gradual withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from Gaza.
Phase two foresees the creation of a new governing body in Gaza and the deployment of a multinational force.
Nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners were released Monday from Israeli prisons under the first phase of the agreement.
According to the Hamas-run Prisoners’ Media Office, buses carrying freed detainees from Ofer Prison west of Ramallah arrived in Beitunia in the occupied West Bank.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa confirmed that 96 prisoners serving long sentences were among those freed, transported by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The office added that 154 freed prisoners were deported to Egypt, while more than 1,700 detainees released from the Negev Prison in southern Israel returned to Gaza.
“Under the current deal, 250 prisoners serving life sentences and long prison terms, as well as 1,718 prisoners arrested from Gaza after October 7, 2023, were released,” the statement said.
Israel’s Prison Service confirmed the release of 1,968 Palestinian prisoners.
Witnesses reported scenes of jubilation as thousands gathered to greet the freed detainees. Crowds filled hospital courtyards in Khan Younis, where the first arrivals underwent medical checks at Nasser Medical Complex.
The releases followed Hamas’ handover of 20 living Israeli captives under the first stage of the ceasefire arrangement.
The truce, brokered under Trump’s plan, brought a temporary halt to the Israeli regime’s devastating two-year war on Gaza, which has killed more than 67,800 Palestinians — most of them women and children — and left the enclave in ruins.