Israel announced that four tankers with fuel and four tankers with cooking gas entered the Gaza Strip on Friday, the first day of what is meant to be a four-day ceasefire.
Israel has agreed to allow the delivery of 130,000 liters (34,300 gallons) of fuel a day into besieged Gaza for humanitarian needs for the duration of the truce. This would be roughly twice the amount permitted previously, but still only a small portion of Gaza’s daily needs, estimated at more than 1 million liters (264,000 gallons).
For most of the past seven weeks of war, Israel had barred the entry of any fuel to Gaza, claiming it could be used by Hamas for military purposes. United Nations aid agencies pushed back against such claims, saying fuel deliveries were closely supervised and urgently needed to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.
It was not immediately clear if Friday’s deliveries meant the new daily target set by the truce deal had been reached, Reuters reported. The announcement was made by COGAT, a body in Israel’s defense ministry responsible for Palestinian civilian affairs.
Much-needed Fuel, Cooking Gas Tankers Enter Gaza

A Palestinian woman carries a child while they walk next to houses destroyed in an Israeli strike during the conflict, as displaced Palestinians return to their homes, amid the temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip November 24, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Much-needed Fuel, Cooking Gas Tankers Enter Gaza

A Palestinian woman carries a child while they walk next to houses destroyed in an Israeli strike during the conflict, as displaced Palestinians return to their homes, amid the temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip November 24, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
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