More than 300 aid trucks enter Gaza as Palestinians battle starvation

Egyptian Red Crescent trucks loaded with aid queue outside the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, amid ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory [File: Khaled Desouki/AFP]

Israel has announced the entry of more than 300 aid trucks into Gaza, the highest daily volume since its war on the besieged territory began six months ago.

But Monday’s delivery still falls far short of what the United Nations says is the minimum required to feed millions of people – most of them refugees – on the brink of starvation.