STORY: Dozens of trucks carrying aid bound for Gaza moved from Egypt on Monday (August 4).

Six more people died of starvation or malnutrition in Gaza over the last 24 hours, its health ministry said on Sunday (August 3) as Israel said it allowed a delivery of fuel to the enclave, in the throes of a humanitarian disaster after almost two years of war.

The new deaths raised the toll of those dying from what international humanitarian agencies say may be an unfolding famine to 175, including 93 children, since the war began, the ministry said.

Israel blames Hamas for the suffering in Gaza but, in response to a rising international uproar, it announced steps last week to let more aid reach the population, including pausing fighting for part of the day in some areas, approving air drops and announcing protected routes for aid convoys.

U.N. agencies say airdrops are insufficient and that Israel must let in far more aid by land and open up access to the territory to prevent starvation among its 2.2 million people, most of whom are displaced amidst vast swathes of rubble.

COGAT had said that during the past week over 23,000 tons of humanitarian aid in 1,200 trucks had entered Gaza but that hundreds of the trucks had yet to be driven to aid distribution hubs by U.N. and other international organisations.

The Hamas-run Gaza government media office said on Sunday that nearly 1,600 aid trucks had arrived since Israel eased restrictions late in July. However, witnesses and Hamas sources said many of those trucks have been looted by desperate displaced people and armed gangs.

The Gaza war began when Hamas killed more than 1,200 people and took 251 hostage in a cross-border attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, according to Israeli figures. Israel's air and ground war in densely populated Gaza has since killed more than 60,000 Palestinians, according to the enclave health officials.

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VIDEO SHOWS: VARIOUS OF TRUCKS IN EGYPT'S RAFAH, CARRYING AID BOUND FOR GAZA, MOVING TOWARDS BORDER CROSSING

SHOWS: RAFAH, EGYPT (AUGUST 4, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. TRUCK, CARRYING AID BOUND FOR GAZA, MOVING TOWARDS BORDER CROSSING

2. AID TRUCKS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET

3. VARIOUS OF AID BOXES ON TRUCK, WITH SIGNS READING (Arabic/English): "QATAR AID"

4. AID BOXES WITH WORLD FOOD PROGRAM (WFP) LOGO ON THEM

5. AID TRUCKS

6. TRUCK, WITH SIGN READING (Arabic): "FROM THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE TO THE BROTHERLY PALESTINIAN PEOPLE. AUGUST 2025. EGYPTIAN RED CRESCENT", MOVING TOWARDS BORDER CROSSING

7. VARIOUS OF TRUCKS, CARRYING AID BOUND FOR GAZA, MOVING TOWARDS BORDER CROSSING