Dozens of humanitarian organizations have begun rapidly scaling up operations in the hopes of delivering aid to Gaza again amid the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.Items in Gaza -- including food, clean water, medicine and hygiene products -- are running low, the organizations say.Additionally, hundreds of thousands of families have been displaced, many living in tents in extremely crowded areas.Humanitarian aid workers told ABC News that they will face several challenges in delivering aid to Gaza.
Israeli authorities have limited the amount of aid that can enter the strip, and destroyed roads and neighborhoods make it difficult to reach areas of the enclave.Trump declares end of Israel-Hamas war, but experts see the hard work as just beginningAdditionally, winter is fast-approaching, and aid workers say they have a limited amount of time to deliver provisions to help Palestinians in Gaza get through the cold weather months."We're not asking for anything unreasonable.We're asking for the volume of aid that entered Gaza Strip before the escalation in October 2023," Tess Ingram, communications manager for UNICEF, told ABC News.
"I think that's something to watch for in the coming days.Does the aid flow? Are the crossings open? Is the U.N.
enabled to do its job, to serve the children of Gaza?....
But the other part is, does the ceasefire hold? The stakes are really high right now, so that ceasefire has to hold."Lifting restrictions on aidThe U.N.said that Sunday, Oct.
12, was the first day progress was seen in the scale-up of humanitarian aid deliveries into Gaza.Hundreds of thousands of hot meals and bread bundles were distributed in the north and south, according to the U.N.Additionally, cooking gas entered the strip for the first time since March as well as tents, frozen meat, fresh fruit, flour and medicine, the U.N.
said.Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid are parked on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing, waiting to get access to the Gaza Strip, October 12, 2025...