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Lorries carrying humanitarian aid arrive on the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. As part of the truce deal, Israel is to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza, where 2.4 million people are struggling to survive amid shortages of food, water and fuel. IMAGES
Trucks are loaded with aid on the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. Alarm has surged about the spiralling humanitarian crisis in Gaza amid the war sparked by the October 7 Hamas attack. Thousands of buildings have been destroyed and more than one million people displaced in the territory that has been under siege and largely deprived of water, food and other basic supplies. IMAGES
UN vehicles and empty trucks head to the Palestinian side of the border with Egypt as they wait for the border to open to allow trucks carrying aid to cross. Some 175 lorries stuffed with vital medicines, food, and water stretched into the distance at the Rafah crossing with Egypt, which has removed concrete roadblocks and is scrambling to repair the route into besieged Gaza -- the only one not controlled by Israel. IMAGES
Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid enter the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing. Ambulances carrying wounded wait to be let through to Egypt. IMAGES
"These trucks are not just trucks, they are a lifeline, they are the difference between life and death for so many people in Gaza," says UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during a statement to the press as he visits the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip. SOUNDBITE
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