Israel has allowed just a fraction of the agreed-upon number of aid trucks to enter Gaza under the ceasefire deal, according to officials in the Strip.
Under the ceasefire agreement, Israel pledged to immediately allow the “commencement of full entry of humanitarian aid and relief” at a minimum consistent with the January 2025 ceasefire deal, under which Israel agreed to allow 600 aid trucks to enter Gaza per day.
According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, Israel has allowed just 15% of the trucks to enter Gaza. “We confirm that the total number of humanitarian aid trucks that have entered the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire began has reached 986 trucks out of 6,600 trucks that were supposed to enter until Monday evening, October 20, 2025, according to what was agreed upon in the text of the resolution,” the Media Office said in a post on Telegram.
Data from the UN2720 Monitoring and Tracking Dashboard, a mechanism created in 2024 to monitor aid shipments into Gaza, shows that from October 10 to October 21, only 853 aid trucks have reached their intended destination in Gaza.
The Media Office added that, on average, 89 trucks were entering Gaza per day, saying it reflected “the continued policy of strangulation, starvation and humanitarian blackmail practiced by the occupation.”
The UN’s World Food Program has also said that food supplies to Gaza have ramped up since the ceasefire, but are still well below the target. The WFP said its target was for 2,000 tonnes of food to enter Gaza per day, but only 750 tonnes are entering daily.
“To be able to get to this scale-up, we have to use every border crossing point right now,” said WFP spokeswoman Abeer Etefa, according to Al Jazeera. She said just two of the Israeli-controlled border crossings were operational, one in central Gaza and one in the south, and Israel still has yet to open the Rafah border crossing that connects Gaza and Egypt.
Etefa added that the food supplies that have entered Gaza are enough to feed half a million people, or about a quarter of Gaza’s population, for two weeks, and that many people are rationing because they fear the supplies will be cut off. “They eat part of it, and they ration and keep some of the supplies for an emergency, because they are not very confident how long the ceasefire will last and what will happen next,” she said.
