The first aid trucks have en­tered Gaza fol­low­ing near­ly three months of Is­rael’s com­plete block­ade, ac­cord­ing to Is­rael and the Unit­ed Na­tions.

Five trucks car­ry­ing aid in­clud­ing ba­by food en­tered the ter­ri­to­ry of over 2 mil­lion Pales­tini­ans via the Kerem Shalom cross­ing on Mon­day, ac­cord­ing to the Is­raeli de­fense body in charge of co­or­di­nat­ing aid to Gaza.

The U.N. called it a “wel­come de­vel­op­ment” but said much more aid is need­ed to ad­dress the hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis. Food se­cu­ri­ty ex­perts last week warned of famine.

THIS IS A BREAK­ING NEWS UP­DATE. AP’s ear­li­er sto­ry fol­lows be­low.

TEL AVIV, Is­rael (AP) — Is­raeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu said Mon­day that his de­ci­sion to re­sume lim­it­ed aid to the Gaza Strip af­ter a two-and-a-half month block­ade came af­ter pres­sure from al­lies who said they couldn’t sup­port Is­rael’s re­newed of­fen­sive if there are “im­ages of hunger” com­ing out of the Pales­tin­ian ter­ri­to­ry.

The an­nounce­ment raised hope among Pales­tini­ans that des­per­ate­ly need­ed food, med­i­cine and oth­er sup­plies would en­ter — but none had by Mon­day af­ter­noon.

Is­rael has mean­while launched a new wave of air and ground op­er­a­tions across the ter­ri­to­ry, and the army or­dered the evac­u­a­tion of Gaza’s sec­ond-largest city, Khan You­nis, where Is­rael car­ried out a mas­sive op­er­a­tion ear­li­er in the war that left much of the area in ru­ins.

On Sun­day, Is­rael said it would al­low a “ba­sic” amount of aid in­to Gaza to pre­vent a “hunger cri­sis” from de­vel­op­ing. Ex­perts have al­ready warned of po­ten­tial famine if the block­ade im­posed on the ter­ri­to­ry’s rough­ly 2 mil­lion Pales­tini­ans is not lift­ed.

Is­rael has stepped up its of­fen­sive in Gaza in what it says is a bid to pres­sure Hamas to re­lease the re­main­ing hostages ab­duct­ed in the Oct. 7, 2023, at­tack that ig­nit­ed the war. Hamas has said it will on­ly re­lease them in ex­change for a last­ing cease­fire and an Is­raeli pull­out.

Ne­tanyahu said Mon­day that Is­rael plans on “tak­ing con­trol of all of Gaza,” and es­tab­lish­ing a new sys­tem to dis­trib­ute aid that cir­cum­vents Hamas. He has al­so said Is­rael will en­cour­age what he refers to as the vol­un­tary em­i­gra­tion of much of Gaza’s pop­u­la­tion to oth­er coun­tries.