STORY: Fuel and aid trucks carrying tents and cooking utensils bound for Gaza were seen moving from Egypt’s Rafah on Thursday (October 16).

Aid trucks rolled into Gaza on Wednesday and Israel resumed preparations to open the main Rafah crossing as Hamas handed over more bodies of dead hostages, following a dispute that had threatened the fragile ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave.

Israel had warned it could keep Rafah shut and reduce aid supplies because it said Hamas was returning bodies too slowly, showing the risks to a truce that has stopped two years of devastating warfare in Gaza and seen all living hostages held by Hamas freed.

However, the militant group returned several Israeli bodies overnight and two more coffins later on Wednesday. An Israeli security official said preparations were under way to open Rafah to Gazan citizens, while a second official said that 600 aid trucks would go in.

The war has caused a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, with nearly all inhabitants driven from their homes, a global hunger monitor confirming famine and health authorities overwhelmed.

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VIDEO SHOWS: AID AND FUEL TRUCKS BOUND FOR GAZA LINING UP AND MOVING FROM EGYPT'S RAFAH / TRUCKS CARRYING SHELTER TENTS AND COOKING UTENSILS FOR SOUP KITCHENS INSIDE GAZA MOVING

SHOWS: RAFAH, EGYPT (OCTOBER 16, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all)

1. VARIOUS OF FUEL, AID TRUCKS LINED UP IN FRONT OF RAFAH BORDER CROSSING

2. FUEL TRUCKS MOVING

3. VARIOUS OF FUEL TRUCKS LINED UP

4. FUEL TRUCKS MOVING

5. VARIOUS OF AID TRUCKS MOVING

6. TRUCK CARRYING SHELTER TENTS MOVING

7. VARIOUS OF AID TRUCKS MOVING

RAFAH, EGYPT (OCTOBER 16, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) (NIGHT SHOTS)

8. AID TRUCK MOVING

9. VARIOUS OF TRUCK CARRYING COOKING UTENSILS, BOUND FOR SOUP KITCHENS IN GAZA, MOVING