A satellite image shows a closer view of trucks with aid at Kerem Shalom Border Crossing in the Gaza Strip, October 15, 2025. Satellite image ©2025 Vantor/Handout via REUTERS
JERUSALEM/CAIRO - Aid trucks rolled into Gaza on Wednesday and Israel resumed preparations to open the main Rafah crossing after a dispute over the return of the bodies of dead hostages that had threatened to derail the fragile ceasefire deal with Hamas.
Israel had threatened to keep Rafah shut and reduce aid supplies because Hamas was returning bodies too slowly, showing the risks to a truce that has stopped two years of devastating warfare in Gaza and seen all living hostages held by Hamas freed.
However, the militant group returned more Israeli bodies overnight, and an Israeli security official said preparations were underway to open Rafah to
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