The start of a ceasefire in Gaza and the flow of aid

The ceasefire in the Gaza Strip entered into force today, the first phase of which extends for 42 days, 15 months after the Israeli aggression on the Strip, while the United Nations announced that the first aid trucks entered the Strip..

Jonathan Whittall, chief official for the occupied Palestinian territories at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), announced via the “X” platform that a ceasefire entered into force in Gaza at 11:15 today Palestine time, and the first supply trucks began entering 15 minutes later..

Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majid Al-Ansari confirmed, in a statement, that the names of the three hostages who will be released today have been handed over to the Israeli party, and they are three Israeli citizens, one of whom holds Romanian citizenship and the other holds British citizenship, while the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed in a statement that it had received the list..

With the start of the ceasefire, thousands of displaced people began to return to their homes, and the main streets in the cities of the destroyed Strip were crowded with large numbers of Palestinians returning to their areas, especially in the north, on foot. .

The Middle East News Agency quoted an official source in North Sinai as saying that 300 trucks, part of the first batch of aid provided to the Palestinians, carrying various humanitarian aid and fuel, headed from the Rafah land port to the Kerem Shalom crossing, southeast of the Gaza Strip, in preparation for their entry into the Strip..

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced today that the Israeli aggression on the Strip has resulted in the death of at least 46,913 Palestinians and the injury of 110,750 others since October 7, 2023..