GAZA: The EU’s foreign policy chief,Josep Borrell said the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is “not a natural disaster” and has accused Israel of using starvation as a “weapon of war”.

“This is a man-made crisis,” Borrell told the UN Security Council. “When we look for alternative ways of providing support by sea or by air, we have to remind that we have to do it because the natural way of providing support to roads is being closed – artificially closed – and starvation is being used as a war arm.”

The Israeli military has said that a six-truck convoy carrying aid from the World Food Programme (WFP) has entered northern Gaza as part of a “pilot” project, Al Jazeera reports.

The military said the trucks “entered the northern Gaza Strip via the ‘96th’ gate on the security fence” on Tuesday. It added this was done as “part of a pilot to prevent Hamas from taking over aid”.

The WFP said earlier that it had delivered food for 25,000 people in Gaza City, while a UN official told the Reuters news agency the convoy used an Israeli military road near the Gaza fence.