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Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid enter the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing. Ambulances carrying wounded wait to be let through to Egypt. IMAGES
Loaded trucks arrive on the Palestinian side of the Rafah border with Egypt after the it opened to allow humanitarian aid to pass on the 15th day of the war between Israel and Hamas, the militant movement which rules the Palestinian enclave of 2.4 million people. IMAGES
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid enter the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing at the border with Egypt. The aid's arrival comes after the truce between Israel and Hamas expired on Friday, with Israel telling NGOs not to bring aid convoys through the crossing, the Palestine Red Crescent Society had said. But on Saturday, the charity announced its Egyptian colleagues had managed to send over a number of trucks. IMAGES
Trucks carrying aid enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, after Israel and Hamas agreed to extend by one more day a truce under which hostages are exchanged for Palestinian prisoners and aid flows into the war-devastated Strip. IMAGES
The Director of Communications at the Rafah border crossing, Palestinian side, says more than 300 trucks will enter today as a truce between Israel and Hamas takes hold after nearly seven weeks after an unprecedented Hamas attack sparked an air and ground offensive by Israel, which has vowed to destroy the Palestinian militants. In Gaza nearly 15,000 people, 6,150 of them children, have been killed in the war, officials in the Hamas-run territory said. About 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed in Israel during the October 7 attack and around 240 taken hostage, according to Israeli officials.