2023-10-22 12:56:50
Humanitarian aid convoy enters the Gaza Strip Mohammed Assad/AFP – 22.10.2023 An official at the Rafah border crossing reported that six tankers with fuel entered the Gaza Strip this Sunday (22), according to the AFP news network ( Agence France-Presse). But, according to local newspaper The Times of Israel, the Israeli Army denies this information. The Palestinian territory has been deprived of basic products since October 9, when Israel declared a total siege on the region. On Sunday morning, seventeen trucks with humanitarian aid crossed the Rafah crossing, from Egypt towards the Gaza Strip. This was the second convoy in two days to enter Palestinian territory since the start of the war between the Israeli Army and the terrorist group Hamas. More than a hundred trucks with humanitarian aid are awaiting authorization to enter the Gaza Strip, and dozens of people with foreign passports are waiting on the Palestinian side to enter Egypt. In the early hours of Saturday (21), a first convoy of 20 trucks from the Egyptian Red Crescent crossed the Rafah border crossing taking supplies to hospitals in the Gaza Strip. The aid included canned food, medicine, blankets and mattresses, but not one essential item: drinking water. The borders were closed shortly after the completion of the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza and, according to the president of the humanitarian NGO North Sinai Red Crescent, Khaled Said, to the EFE agency, it is not known when the crossing will be reopened and how many trucks will be able to to enter. He said that “there is no information about the departure of foreign citizens from Gaza” and that “nothing is known yet” about when and how this might occur. International entities have warned that the humanitarian aid that arrived in the Gaza Strip on Saturday is completely insufficient. The UN, for example, estimates that at least one hundred trucks would be needed a day to help the region’s 2.4 million residents. The death toll in the war between the Israeli Army and the terrorist group Hamas rose to 6,051 this Sunday (22). The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that the death toll in the Gaza Strip rose to 4,651 victims. On the Israeli side, the number of victims is 1,400.
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