Nearly 900 humanitarian aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip yesterday, the third day of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, as a senior UN official said so far there had been no apparent law-and-order issues, Reuters reports.

The latest arrivals bring the three-day total to more than 2,400 trucks entering the enclave. Muhannad Hadi, the top UN aid official for Gaza and the West Bank, said there had been minor incidents of looting in the past three days, but “not like before”.

“It’s not organised crime. Kids jumped on some trucks trying to take food baskets. There were some other people [who] tried to take some bottled water,” he told reporters after visiting the Palestinian enclave yesterday.

“Hopefully within few days this will all disappear once the people of Gaza realise that we will have aid enough for everybody.”

 Palestinians rush to take aid from a truck, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 21. — Reuters/Mohammed Salem
Palestinians rush to take aid from a truck, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 21. — Reuters/Mohammed Salem

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said 897 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip yesterday, citing information it received from Israel and the guarantors for the ceasefire agreement — the United States, Egypt and Qatar.

This compares with 630 on Sunday and 915 on Monday. The truce deal requires at least 600 truckloads of aid to be allowed into Gaza every day of the initial six-week ceasefire, including 50 carrying fuel. Half of those trucks are supposed to go to Gaza’s north, where experts have warned famine is imminent.

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