More than 460 humanitarian aid trucks were inspected and transferred Tuesday to the Gaza Strip, the largest number to enter the Palestinian enclave in a single day since the start of the war, Israeli officials said this week.

Over the past three days, more than 1,200 aid trucks moved into the Gaza Strip with food supplies and humanitarian aid, Israel Defense Forces officials said on their Telegram social messaging page.

However, U.N. officials said Wednesday the food convoys they coordinate are three times more likely to be denied access to northern Gaza than other convoys. Officials with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Israeli officials hadn’t given them a clear reason why.

“They very often deny and that is it, and it ends there. We do not get an explanation,” OCHA spokesman Jens Laerke said Monday from Geneva.

Following discussions between President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week, Israel agreed to reopen the Erez border crossing into northern Gaza and facilitate aid delivery through the nearby port of Ashdod.

As of Monday, OCHA had yet to receive any information that additional aid corridors had reopened, Mr. Laerke said.

“Food convoys that should be going particularly to the north, where 70% of people face famine conditions, are more likely — actually three times more likely — to be denied than any other humanitarian convoy with other kinds of material,” he said.

IDF officials said they are continuing efforts to facilitate the transfer of hundreds of trucks containing hundreds of trucks containing food supplies and humanitarian aid to residents of the Gaza Strip every day.

“The IDF will continue its efforts to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip by land, air, and sea in accordance with international law,” Israeli officials said.

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