LONDON - Five trucks of medical supplies are ready at the border between Gaza and Egypt, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, welcoming Israel's announcement that it will not block the entry of aid into the Palestinian territory.

"Our trucks are loaded and ready to go," WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference on Wednesday. He said he hoped the supplies would be delivered as soon as the crossing opened, "hopefully tomorrow".

(Reporting by Jennifer Rigby and Gabrielle Tetrault-Farber; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)