Israel reopens Zikim crossing in northern Gaza for aid trucks, COGAT says

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People locomotion  with sacks of flour delivered aft  trucks carrying humanitarian assistance  entered bluish   Gaza connected  July 27, 2025 coming from the Zikim borderline  crossing.

People locomotion with sacks of flour delivered aft trucks carrying humanitarian assistance entered bluish Gaza connected July 27, 2025 coming from the Zikim borderline crossing. | Photo Credit: AFP

Israel reopened the Zikim Crossing successful bluish Gaza to let humanitarian assistance trucks into the enclave connected Wednesday (November 12, 2025), COGAT, the Israeli military's limb that oversees assistance flows, said.

U.N. assistance agencies person been calling for the reopening of the crossing for much assistance to travel into the devastated bluish portion of the enclave, particularly aft past month's Israel-Hamas ceasefire.

The U.N. humanitarian bureau (OCHA) said that the crossing was unopen connected September 12 and nary assistance groups person been capable to import supplies since. Israel's subject has not responded to a petition for remark connected its reasons for the closure.

Some humanitarian assistance was allowed into bluish Gaza done the south, but much was needed arsenic the bluish Gaza City and surrounding areas were officially suffering from famine, a planetary hunger show had said a period earlier.

A COGAT connection said the crossing opened "in accordance with a directive of the governmental echelon."

"The assistance volition beryllium transferred by the UN and planetary organisations pursuing thorough information inspections by the Land Crossings Authority of the Ministry of Defence," it added.

Published - November 12, 2025 02:29 p.m. IST

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