A “humanitarian break” announced in Gaza, the first trucks come from Egypt

First trucks loaded with aid crossed the border from Egypt on Sunday July 27, 2025 to the besieged and hungry Gaza Strip, where Israel has told a daily fighting for humanitarian purposes in several sectors.

Images of AFP show a line of trucks loaded with white bags crossing, on the Egyptian side, the entrance to the Rafah terminal, which leads to the south of the Palestinian territory. However, the trucks do not enter the Gaza Strip directly, where the border post has been closed for more than a year, and will have to travel before that to go to the Israeli crossing point of Kerem Shalom to be inspected.

“The dream of my life has become to eat a piece of bread and to be able to give it to my children. Every day, my husband leaves at dawn to try to find flour (…) but he returns without anything ”told AFP Suad Ishtaywi, a thirty-year-old woman who lives in a tent in Tal al-Hawa, in the city of Gaza (North).

“We heard information that trucks carrying flour and food were going to enter Gaza. We hope that if they enter, they will reach us ”she added.

This “Tactical break” will be observed daily, from Sunday, “From 10 am to 8 pm (7 am to 5 pm GMT)”starting with the Deir-el-Balah areas, in the center of Gaza, Al-Mawasi, in the South, and the city of Gaza, in the North, where there is not for the moment of military operations, the army said.

On Saturday, civil defense in the Palestinian territory said that Israeli bombings and fire killed more than fifty people.

Israel denies any blockage of aid and claims not to be responsible for shortages, accusing Hamas of looting cargoes and humanitarian organizations not to distribute them. But these organizations claim that Israel imposes excessive restrictions on the entrance to aid in the Palestinian territory, of which it controls access.

According to AFP