A major ramp-up of aid needed to ease famine and suffering in Gaza after two years of conflict has yet to happen, the Red Cross and U.N. agencies said on Tuesday (October 14).

U.S. President Donald Trump declared an end to the Israel-Hamas conflict on Monday (October 13) as the last living Israeli hostages were swapped for Palestinian detainees, raising expectations that aid supplies would be rushed into the enclave where hundreds of thousands of people face famine.

"The shift has not yet happened. We are still witnessing only few trucks coming in, and large crowds approaching these trucks in a way that does absolutely not conform to humanitarian standards," ICRC spokesperson Christian Cardon told reporters in Geneva.

COGAT, the arm of the Israeli military that oversees aid flows into Gaza previously, did not immediately respond to questions about aid flows. It previously said it expected about 600 aid trucks to enter Gaza daily after the ceasefire - in line with levels the United Nations say is typically required.

However, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said only some 350 humanitarian aid trucks have entered Gaza in the last few days.

All of the aid so far has been through the south and central crossing of Kissufim, U.N. agencies said, with those at the epicentre of the humanitarian crisis in North Gaza still shut.

“We need some determined patience,” said OCHA spokesperson, Jens Laerke, adding that the humanitarian delivery scale up was not in UN’s hands for now.

Speaking at the same briefing, WHO spokesperson, Tarik Jasarevic called for an increase in medical evacuation and the reopening of the medical corridors.

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No aid scale-up yet in Gaza, aid agencies say

VIDEO SHOWS: ICRC, OCHA AND WHO SPOKESPERSON SAYING AID SCALE UP IN GAZA HAS NOT HAPPENED YET / AID TRUCK AT EGYPT-GAZA BORDER / PALESTINIANS IN KHAN YOUNIS COLLECTING AID FROM TRUCKS

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SHOWS: ARISH, EGYPT (OCTOBER 14, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. VARIOUS OF AID TRUCKS MOVING, SOME PARKED

2.⁠ ⁠AID BOXES WITH SIGN READING (Arabic, English) UNICEF

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (OCTOBER 14, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

3. NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS

4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC)'S SPOKESPERSON CHRISTIAN CARDON, SAYING:

“Now when it comes to the aid, the answer is no, not yet. The shift has not yet happened. We are still witnessing, you know, only a few trucks coming in and large crowds approaching these trucks in a way that is absolutely not conformed to humanitarian standards. So figures are talking about the need for 600 trucks per day for six weeks to alleviate some of the first needs. I think we are not yet there yet. We are clearly not yet there.”

KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA (OCTOBER 11, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

5.⁠ ⁠VARIOUS OF PALESTINIANS IN KHAN YOUNIS COLLECTING AID FROM TRUCKS / CROWDS SURROUNDING THE VEHICLES

6.⁠ ⁠VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WALKING THROUGH THE STREETS CARRYING AID BOXES

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (OCTOBER 14, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SPOKESPERSON FOR THE UN OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS (OCHA), JENS LAERKE, SAYING:

“We need some determined patience. Determined patience. So determined to do what we set out to do, and as I say, we won't stop until we have done it, but we need that patience because when, how, where, how much, who's going to count, and so on and so forth, it's not in our hands right now. It's not in our hands right now. We have 190,000 metric tons in the region ready to go in. An update from the 170,000 we spoke about recently. So it's now 190,000 metric tons that are in the pipeline just in the region: Jordan, the West Bank, Egypt, even Cyprus.”

8. NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS

9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SPOKESPERSON FOR THE UN OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS (OCHA), JENS LAERKE, SAYING:

“Now, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could just do that immediately? Now, we can't do that. It is, of course, part of the 20-point plan, which the UN was not part of drafting, but we are happy that it's in there, and we want to see it happen as soon as possible. But it hasn't happened yet. We are, of course, determined to scale up. We need this scale-up. We won't stop until we get it, but it's out of our hands when exactly it is going to happen.”

KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA (OCTOBER 12, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

10.⁠ ⁠VARIOUS OF AID TRUCKS DRIVING THROUGH KHAN YOUNIS WITH PEOPLE ON IT

11.⁠ ⁠CONVOY OF UN VEHICLES DRIVING PAST

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND (OCTOBER 14, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

12. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SPOKESPERSON FOR THE UN OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS (OCHA), JENS LAERKE, SAYING:

“Evidence that we have from our colleagues on the ground who say that humanitarians are now able to move more easily in many areas, so teams are reaching people in places that have previously been cut off. So movement restrictions inside Gaza is clearly better now than they have been in the past. And we use that, of course, to pre-position supplies, to deliver as much as we can. It is a very fluid situation. I know it's self-evident to say.”

13. NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS

14. (SOUNDBITE) (English) SPOKESPERSON FOR WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, TARIK JASAREVIC, SAYING:

“Second thing is really to expand the medical evacuations from Gaza. 15,600 people, including 3,800 children, need to be medically evacuated. And since October 2023, WHO has supported the medical evacuation of 7,841 patients, including 5,405 children. What we need is more countries to accept patients from Gaza, and we need the restoration of all the medical evacuation routes to the West Bank, where we had a medical referral pathway to Jordan, but also to East Jerusalem.”

15. NEWS CONFERENCE IN PROGRESS

16. VARIOUS OF EXTERIORS OF THE U.N.