After two years of war in which Israel has blocked most food and aid from going into Gaza, humanitarian organizations are preparing to scale up aid deliveries into Gaza now that Israel and Hamas reached a cease-fire agreement on Thursday.

At least five border crossings are expected to reopen as part of the pause in fighting, the Associated Press reported . “Our teams are ready,” Juliette Touma, a spokesperson with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), told the New York Times . “We just need the green light to drive those trucks and get them in so our staff can deliver aid directly to people in need.” She added that UNRWA’s warehouses contain enough food, medications, and other aid to fill an estimated 6,000 trucks.

The war has

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