PALESTINE – Local government on Monday said that 173 aid trucks entered Gaza Strip on Sunday under the ceasefire agreement.

“We confirm that 173 humanitarian aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Oct. 12 through the crossings, marking the first day following the ceasefire agreement,” the media office said in a press release.

It said three cooking gas trucks and six diesel fuel trucks crossed into the enclave to operate bakeries, generators, and hospitals amid an acute shortage of essential materials.

The media office said the quantities of humanitarian aid that entered the Palestinian enclave are far from meeting “even the minimum humanitarian and living requirements of more than 2.4 million people.”

It reiterated the urgent need for “a large, continuous, and organized inflow of aid, fuel, cooking gas, and relief and medical supplies.”

The entry of the aid trucks came after the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement took effect on Friday under US President Donald Trump’s plan to end a two-year Israeli war on the enclave.

Since October 2023, Israeli attacks have killed more than 67,800 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them women and children, leaving the enclave largely uninhabitable.