International humanitarian groups has said they have sent emergency relief through overland routes to Iran, some of their first deliveries of aid since US-Israeli strikes began, Reuters reports.

Aid workers say needs are high in the wake of six weeks of strikes, but stocks of emergency humanitarian supplies became stuck in Dubai warehouses as shipping and air routes were blocked by the expanding conflict.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said it had delivered some 200 trauma kits as well as tents and blankets on trucks sent along a new route from Turkiye.

The trucks crossed the Iranian border on Sunday and are set to arrive in the capital Tehran today, said IFRC spokesperson Tommaso Della Longa.

“For us it’s very important as it represents a new route for getting aid into Iran and we’re very optimistic to scale up,” he told a Geneva press briefing.

“Before it was very easy to take a flight or a boat and bring aid directly to Iran in a couple of hours.”