Officials in the administration of US President Joe Biden told the Times of Israel on Friday that the administration does not believe that Israel is able to fulfill its commitment to allow 200 aid trucks to enter Gaza daily during the pause that is part of the hostage deal with Hamas.

According to the newspaper, officials said that Israel refuses to open the Kerem Shalom crossing with Gaza during the four-day pause or at any time after it. With only the Egyptian Rafah crossing available, it is unlikely that 200 aid trucks will be able to enter daily.

In the first weeks after last October 7, Israel refused to allow any aid to enter Gaza, and after agreeing to allow some to enter, Israel requested that the aid trucks be inspected first in Egypt, then inspected at one of the Israeli crossings before sending them to Rafah to enter Gaza, which led to slow down the limited aid entering Gaza, as relief groups were rarely able to bring their shipments into the Strip, which is subjected to unprecedented bombardment.

The administration of US President Biden spoke several times about an agreement requiring the delivery of 100 trucks daily, but this only happened a few times.

According to the website, American officials said that there is no indication that Israel will open the Kerem Shalom crossing during the truce, which would jeopardize the hostage deal.

Biden administration officials said Israel's position "is really problematic because the level of aid going to Gaza now is completely unsustainable." They said that Israel's justifications for not opening the crossing are "entirely political" because there are no security concerns about aid entering Gaza.

The website reported that Israeli officials have repeatedly pointed to the limited aid they have allowed into Gaza to justify their ongoing offensive, which the UN relief official described as the worst humanitarian crisis they have ever seen, even worse than the killing fields in Cambodia.

On Friday morning, a 4-day truce began between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, followed by the release of a first batch of 13 civilian hostages on Friday afternoon, in the first truce since the start of the war in which 15,000 Palestinians were killed as a result of the unprecedented Israeli bombing.