However, per Al-Araby Al-Jadeed - a Qatari-owned paper based in the UK - most of the supplies which came across Gaza's southern border from Egypt yesterday were stolen by unknown groups.
Out of the 130 trucks that crossed over, the report suggests that 73 were targeted before they could reach distribution sites.
Their contents were then reportedly sold on the black market for profit.
A further 20 trucks were reportedly returned to the Rafah Crossing, though the reasons for this were not clear.
Only 37 apparently reached the warehouse operated by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and the Egyptian Committee aid group unscathed.
Israel has long maintained that UN distribution routes are vulnerable to looting, giving its backing instead to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – a private US firm contracted to provide aid from four sites in the southern part of the Strip.
The IDF has also previously offered to provide security for UN aid convoys, which the global body has rejected, claiming it would be improper to accept protection from either of the belligerents in the Gaza War.
Nonetheless, the military noted that, over the past week alone, more than 250 aid trucks had been unloaded, which it said joined “hundreds of trucks waiting at the crossings to be collected by the UN and international organisations”.
“Additionally, approximately 600 trucks have been distributed by the UN and international organisations,” it said. “The IDF, through COGAT, will continue coordinating with international organisations to collect the contents of hundreds of trucks that have not yet been collected.”
