Aid progress being made - but UNRWA left in dark with three months of supplies

UN officials say real progress is being made today in getting desperately-needed aid into Gaza.

Eri Kaneko, a spokesperson for the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said supplies of cooking gas had entered Gaza for the first time since March.

Other aid moving through on the third day of the ceasefire included flour, fruit and meat.

She added that officials were also given access to move in medical equipment and help move Palestinians from flood-prone areas.

The Egyptian Red Crescent said they carried medical supplies, tents, blankets, food and fuel through the Rafah crossing for Israeli inspection.

But the largest humanitarian actor in Gaza, UNRWA, which has the equivalent of 6,000 trucks of aid waiting outside in Egypt and Jordan, said it had no clarity on its role in the new scaling up of relief.

Spokesperson Jonathan Fowler said the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has enough food supplies in its warehouses for the entire population for three months.

The Israeli defence body in charge of humanitarian aid in Gaza, COGAT, said that the amount of aid entering Gaza is expected to increase today to around 600 trucks per day.