Due to the communications blackout on Saturday, no aid trucks with supplies were able to cross from Egypt into Gaza since Friday. Since the start of the war, only 80 trucks have been allowed in.
Sun., Oct. 29: This image taken from the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip shows black smoke rising amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Hamas militants.Sun., Oct. 29: This image taken from the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip shows black smoke rising amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Hamas militants.In Gaza, some cellular phone service has been restored after more than 24 hours of a communications blackout.
As Palestinians start to recover their ability to reach the outside world, news of the deteriorating conditions in Gaza is starting to trickle out. Israel pounded Hamas-ruled Gaza with more air and ground attacks overnight in an escalating military campaign as the United Nations warned civil order was"starting to break down" in the besieged Palestinian territory.
Due to the communications blackout on Saturday, no aid trucks were able to cross from Egypt into Gaza since Friday. Only 80 trucks have been allowed in since the start of the war, which is barely a trickle compared to the 500 per day before the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Thousands of civilians, both Palestinians and Israelis, have died after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip entered southern Israel in an attack triggering a war declared by Israel on Hamas with retaliatory bombings on Gaza.Sun., Oct. 29: Israeli tanks take position along the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel.Sun., Oct. 29: Palestinians walk about buildings destroyed in the Israeli bombardment in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.Sun.
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