Lorries loaded with 80 tonnes of aid from <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/" target="_blank">the UAE</a> have reached the Gaza Strip via the Karam Abu Salem border crossing. This is the first UAE <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/palestine-israel/2024/02/21/second-uae-aid-convoy-of-the-week-enters-gaza/" target="_blank">aid convoy</a> to reach the enclave since the Rafah border crossing closed on May 6 after Israel's military seized control. It contained essential relief materials, food parcels, dates and tents. Volunteers from the Gallant Knight 3 operation have started distributing aid to displaced Palestinians across the Strip, state news agency Wam reported on Tuesday. It comes a day after an aid ship from <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/tags/uae/" target="_blank">the UAE</a> carrying urgent humanitarian supplies for the residents of <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2024/07/08/like-judgment-day-gaza-city-civilians-flee-latest-israeli-offensive/" target="_blank">Gaza</a> set sail for the Egyptian port of Al Arish. Since the launch of the aid mission in November, the UAE has provided <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/2024/06/14/uae-aid-to-gaza-in-numbers-extra-thousand-tonnes-of-urgent-supplies-delivered-since-may/" target="_blank">33,100 tonnes of urgent supplies</a> to Gaza. The figures, released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, illustrate that aid was delivered by 320 flights, seven ships and 1,243 lorries up until June 13. Under the Gallant Knight 3 operation, the UAE has also established two hospitals, including a field hospital in the southern Gaza Strip and a <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/2024/07/06/you-open-your-eyes-under-rubble-gazans-on-uaes-floating-hospital-grieve-their-losses/" target="_blank">floating hospital</a> off the coast of Al Arish city. It has also worked to set up five automatic bakeries and six desalination plants that produce 1.2 million gallons [more than 4.5 million litres] of clean drinking water a day to 600,000 people in the Gaza Strip. A total of 3,382 tonnes of relief supplies were also sent to isolated parts of Gaza via aid drops.