A fuel truck entered Gaza through the Rafah border crossing from Egypt Wednesday, Al Qahera News reported, in the first such delivery since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7.

An Egyptian source said the fuel would be delivered to the United Nations ‘to facilitate the delivery of aid after trucks on the Palestinian side stopped operating for lack of fuel.’

COGAT, the Israeli defense ministry body that handles Palestinian civil affairs, had said earlier that ‘UN trucks transporting humanitarian aid through the Rafah crossing will be refueled at the Rafah crossing, per US request.’

Witnesses at the Egyptian border said two more trucks were waiting to pass through the crossing.

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon