TEL AVIV, December 22. /TASS/. A total of 5,405 trucks with humanitarian cargoes entered the Gaza Strip since the latest round of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict broke out on October 7, the Israeli government’s coordinator for the Palestinian territories said on Friday.

"5,405 trucks carrying 96,710 tons of humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war," the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said on Twitter.

According to the statement, 2,642 trucks delivered food (53,120 tons), 787 - medicines (9,100 tons), 762 - water (15,300 tons), 712 - equipment for temporary shelters (10,540 tons). The remaining 502 trucks carried mixed cargo (7,650 tons).

Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 when militants from the radical Palestinian group Hamas staged a surprise attack on Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip and took hostages. Hamas described its operation as a response to the aggressive actions of Israeli authorities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City. Israel has declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and carried out air strikes on the Palestinian enclave, as well as some areas of Lebanon and Syria. Clashes are also underway in the West Bank.