Overview
- COGAT confirmed UN and approved organizations can send convoys, with WFP and COGAT targeting about 600 trucks per day plus expanded community distribution points and bakeries.
- UN agencies report 170,000 metric tonnes of food, medicine, fuel and shelter supplies prepositioned in Egypt and Jordan for rapid dispatch.
- UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said initial fuel and medical shipments have begun moving through the Kerem Shalom crossing as coordination on routes and access points continues.
- WFP indicated the early‑week ramp‑up depends on further Israeli troop pullbacks to widen humanitarian zones, the opening of more crossings, and faster scanning and approvals for convoys.
- UNICEF warned that roughly 50,000 children face acute malnutrition and, alongside UNRWA, called for unimpeded access through all crossings, with UNRWA seeking approval to move thousands of trucks of aid.