Just 20 trucks were allowed in, an amount aid workers said was insufficient to address the unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Israel has vowed to crush Hamas but has given few details about what it envisions for Gaza if it succeeds. Israel had insisted nothing would enter Gaza until Hamas released all the captives from its Oct. 7 attack on towns in southern Israel. Israel says Hamas is still holding at least 210 hostages, though their conditions — and if they are even alive — remains unknown. “The situation is catastrophic in Gaza,” the head of the U.N.’s World Food Program, Cindy McCain, told The Associated Press.

Source: ABC News October 21, 2023 07:57 UTC