Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant told U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in a phone call on Sunday that the Israel Defense Forces is not carrying out a plan proposed by former Israeli generals to seal off aid to northern Gaza, Israeli officials said.

Israel closed the main crossings into northern Gaza in the first week of October as it renewed its military offensive. No food and other supplies have been entering the area where there are currently more than 400,000 Palestinians.

The Israeli defense minister told the U.S. ambassador that the IDF has opened the Zikim crossing in northwest Gaza and that the first aid trucks entered on Monday, Israeli officials said. The IDF said 30 trucks carrying flour and food from the UN World Food Program were transferred on Monday from the Port of Ashdod through the “Erez West” (Zikim) crossing to the northern Gaza Strip. It was the first delivery of aid to northern Gaza since the first week of October, an Israeli official said.