After weeks of delays in allowing aid into the Gaza Strip, trucks finally crossed the border late Wednesday night. Desperate and hungry, civilians rushed a truck in Khan Younis on its way to a bakery with flour and looted the bags on its flatbed.

United Nations teams in Gaza have collected 90 truckloads of humanitarian aid after delays at the crossing with Israel kept the supplies in limbo for days. Under international pressure, Israel stopped blocking all food, medicine, fuel and other material on Monday after nearly three months.

The U.N. is still trying to get the desperately needed aid that has entered Gaza this week into the hands of Palestinians amid delays because of fears of looting and Israeli military restrictions.

By The Associated Press Aid groups have collected humanitarian aid carried by about 90 trucks, out of a total of nearly 200 that have entered Gaza since Israel began allowing limited goods in

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in early March 2025 that Israel would "stop letting goods and supplies into Gaza."

Satellite images appear to show the construction of three large aid distribution sites in southern Gaza, amid reports about a controversial new United States-backed plan to bring more humanitarian aid to Gaza.

A U.S.-backed organization aims to start work in the Gaza Strip by the end of May overseeing a new model of aid distribution in the Palestinian enclave, but the United Nations says the plan is not impartial or neutral,

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV called Wednesday for humanitarian aid to reach the Gaza Strip and for an end to the “heartbreaking” toll on its people, as he presided over his first general audience in St. Peter’s Square.