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Hopes are high that the aid trucks would be able to cross into Gaza on Friday, according to European Union officials coordinating aid from the bloc. There are 54 tons of E.U. aid sitting not far from the border in Arish, a city in a restricted area of northeastern Egypt.

The deal was announced by President Biden late Wednesday after a visit to Israel, during which he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and later spoke by phone with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

That has left only Egypt’s Rafah border crossing, where trucks carrying some 3,000 tons of food, water and medicine are “awaiting” Egypt’s approval to enter, the United Nations says.

It’s unclear if fuel would be included in the shipment. With Gaza’s main power plant unable to operate, aid groups say fuel is badly needed to power desalination and wastewater plants, along with hospital generators.

One of the biggest obstacles to aid to Gazans has been the inability of the UN to give aid to civilians without Hamas interference. Biden said that if Hamas did not allow the aid to get through, it would end.

On the Gaza side of the Rafah border, thousands of people have gathered in hopes of being allowed to exit the territory and escape the conflict. Ahead of a ground invasion, Israel wants Palestinians to leave northern Gaza and go to the southern part of the territory, so-called safe zones. The bombardment in southern Gaza continues as well.

Some 600 United States citizens are thought to be trapped in Gaza, but no one will be allowed to leave if the border opens on Friday.

Since an explosion at the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, there has been increasing calls for a cease-fire. The blast killed more than 470 people, most of whom were patients at the hospital or people who had come to the hospital to seek a safe place to stay, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.

The explosion sparked protests across the region, including in the occupied West Bank, where three Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces overnight.

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On Wednesday, the Secretary-General called for an “immediate cease-fire” to allow Hamas’s release of hostages and for Israel to grant unrestricted access to aid.

British Prime Minister Priti Sunak was scheduled to arrive in Israel Thursday for a meeting with Netanyahu, along with French leaderEmmanuelMacron in the coming days.

About 1,400 people in Israel have been killed in the conflict, most of them on Oct. 7, Israeli officials say. Palestinian health officials say that the death toll in Gaza has reached 3,478, along with more than 60 dead in the West Bank.

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After President Biden said Israel agreed to allow food and medicine into the Gaza Strip, aid workers and diplomats were working on a logistical plan to get the food and medicine in.

The area around the crossing has repeatedly been bombed by Israel. On Thursday, Egyptian workers were repairing roads so that the large trucks loaded with aid would be able to pass, according to an aid official briefed on the situation.

The World Health Organization, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and other humanitarian groups have sent equipment and supplies.

Egyptian officials are holding intensive talks in Cairo with the U.N. secretary general, António Guterres; his humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths; and a special U.S. envoy about how to deliver the aid to Gaza.

Non-Egyptian officials are not allowed into the border crossing area. It sits in a province where Egypt has fought militants for years, and the government in Cairo is wary of any spillover from the Gaza conflict.

Officials said Thursday that efforts were underway to address those concerns — most likely by having the Egyptian Red Crescent handle the aid on the Egyptian side and turn it over to the Palestinian Red Crescent on the Gaza side.

The cargo needs to be checked for weapons that could be used in attacks. The American, U.N. and Egyptian officials are discussing who would carry out those cargo inspections, a person directly familiar with the matter said, requesting anonymity to speak about the delicate negotiations.

Abood Okal, a Palestinian American who has been stranded with his wife and one-year-old son, said in a WhatsApp message that he was “very concerned” that there had been no updates about an evacuation despite the talk of an agreement to allow aid into Gaza.

Mr Okal said that there had been an explosion around the house where he was staying. With no safe place to go, and no evacuation plan in sight, he wrote, “We are extremely afraid for our lives.”