South Gaza is preparing for the next phase of the war.

According to the United Nations, about 1.8 million Gazans have already been displaced by the war, and many say there are nowhere left to seek refuge.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant posted a photo on social media of himself in an Israeli attack helicopter, saying he had watched some of Friday’s attacks on Gaza from the air.

“This morning we started attacking Hamas again with full force,” he said wrote on the social media platform X. “Hamas only understands violence.”

The weeklong lull in fighting provided an opportunity for hundreds of aid trucks to enter Gaza, carrying supplies of food, water, medicine and some fuel, although aid groups said aid still fell far short of what was needed.

These shipments were initially halted on Friday after the collapse of the ceasefire, but the Israeli agency that oversees policy for the Palestinian territories said later in the day that “dozens” of aid trucks had been allowed in.

John F. Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said that Israel, at the insistence of the United States, had agreed on Friday to allow a reduced number of aid trucks to continue entering Gaza.

“Probably in terms of dozens of trucks versus hundreds of trucks,” he said at a news briefing.

Martin Griffiths, the UN’s chief humanitarian and aid official, called for a lasting humanitarian ceasefire and said the level of destruction and deaths was “unacceptable”. The seven-day pause, he said, was a glimpse of what peace in Gaza could look like.

“While it barely scratches the surface of what people need, it still gives aid agencies the opportunity to deliver some basic services, reach areas that have been cut off for weeks, and give deeply traumatized families some respite,” he says. said in a statement on Friday.

Iyad Abuheweila contributed reporting from Cairo, and Erica L. Green from Washington.