Egypt’s border crossing opens to let trickle of desperately needed aid into Gaza

Trucks with humanitarian aid enter the Gaza Strip (Hatem Ali/AP)

The border crossing between Egypt and Gaza opened on Saturday to let a trickle of desperately needed aid into the besieged Palestinian territory for the first time since Israel sealed it off in the wake of Hamas’s bloody rampage two weeks ago.

Just 20 trucks were allowed in, an amount that aid workers said was insufficient to address the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Gaza.