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A six-truck convoy of humanitarian aid from Jordan left for the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the official Jordanian news agency reports.
The convoy headed from Amman towards the Allenby Bridge crossing that divides Jordan from the Palestinian territories, and should arrive in Gaza on Sunday, the Petra news agency said. It added that the trucks were carrying foodstuffs and medical equipment for a Jordanian hospital in Gaza.
To date, the hospital has treated "more than one million patients, of whom 14,000 underwent surgical operations," said Dr Mohammed Moheisen, head of the department of humanitarian medical aid.
He said the food would be distributed in Gaza by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
On Saturday, Israeli forces boarded and diverted an aid ship headed from Ireland to Gaza in defiance of an Israeli blockade.
The Rachel Corrie was due to have joined a multi-national flotilla of six ships that were raided by Israeli naval commandos on Monday in a bungled operation that left nine pro-Palestinian activists dead and scores injured, among them seven Israeli soldiers.
Israel allows only limited supplies into the densely populated and impoverished Gaza Strip.
