The Higher Commission for Tribal Affairs, which represents influential clans in the enclave, said trucks had been protected as part of an aid security process.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stopped aid from entering northern Gaza Wednesday for 48 hours as a video circulated on social media allegedly depicting Hamas fighters stealing food from civilians.

Israel has halted aid supplies to Gaza for two days to prevent them being seized by Hamas, an official said on Thursday after images circulated of masked men on aid trucks whom clan leaders said were protecting aid,