After weeks of delays in allowing aid into the Gaza Strip, trucks finally crossed the border late Wednesday night. Desperate and hungry, civilians rushed a truck in Khan Younis on its way to a bakery with flour and looted the bags on its flatbed.

The U.N. says it is trying to get the desperately needed aid that has entered Gaza this week into the hands of Palestinians.

Newly inaugurated Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday made an appeal to end hostility in Gaza and called for humanitarian aid to enter the war-torn territory with reports suggesting a worsening outlook.