The convoy, the 202nd under the ERC’s Zad El-Ezza: From Egypt to Gaza initiative launched last July, included food, flour, fuel, medical supplies, tents, mattresses, and clothing destined for Palestinians in Gaza, according to the organization.
The ERC said the fuel shipment was intended to support hospitals and other critical facilities in the enclave, where healthcare services have been strained by months of shortages and restrictions on the entry of essential equipment.
The organization said it has maintained operations at the Rafah border crossing since the start of Israel's genocidal war on the strip and insisted the crossing “has never been closed from the Egyptian side”. It added that humanitarian aid delivered through its operations has exceeded 985,000 tonnes since October 2023, with support from more than 65,000 volunteers.
The convoy comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that Gaza’s health system remains on the verge of collapse.
Reinhilde Van de Weerdt, the WHO representative in the occupied Palestinian territories, said on Friday that most hospitals and primary healthcare centres in Gaza were only partially functioning because of shortages of medicines, laboratory materials, oxygen concentrators, and medical equipment.
She said some urgently needed facilities, including a prefabricated hospital awaiting deployment from Jordan, had been delayed for months because of Israeli restrictions on items classified as “dual-use”.
The WHO said it had documented 22 attacks on healthcare facilities in Gaza this year. More than 43,000 Palestinians have suffered life-changing injuries since the war began, including about 10,000 children requiring long-term rehabilitation, prosthetics, and assistive devices, it said.
Although a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas officially took effect in October 2025, brokered by Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and the US, the Israeli occupation army has continuously violated the truce, killing at least 883 Palestinians and injuring over 2,648 others since it went into effect, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Israel has also maintained a bottleneck on aid since, allowing less than the agreed-upon 600-800 daily trucks entrance, and often restricting fuel and medical equipment, in addition to completely disallowing infrastructure equipment.
However, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA), Human Rights Watch (HRW), and other aid groups say deliveries remain well below agreed levels.
International medical and human rights organisations, including Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), have accused Israel of using restrictions on food, medicine, and clean water as leverage during the conflict.
Israel has killed at least 72,775 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded over 172,750 others, most of them women and children, since it launched its war on the strip, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Palestinian officials say about 90 percent of Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed, with reconstruction costs estimated at around $70 billion.
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