A fuel truck has entered Gaza through the Rafah border crossing from Egypt, state-aligned Al Qahera News reported, in the first such delivery since the Israel-Hamas conflict began on Oct 7, AFP reports.

An Egyptian source said the fuel would be delivered to the United Nations “to facilitate the delivery of aid after trucks on the Palestinian side stopped operating for lack of fuel”.

COGAT, the Israeli defence ministry body that handles Palestinian civil affairs, had said earlier that “UN trucks transporting humanitarian aid through the Rafah crossing will be refuelled at the Rafah crossing, per US request.”

Witnesses at the Egyptian border said two more trucks were waiting to pass through the crossing.