The concrete dams, which had been installed by the Egyptians on their border with besieged Gaza after the Israeli bombings, they were removed, a source in the Egyptian security forces told AFP today, which seems to indicate that humanitarian aid will soon pass through.
On the 14th day of the war between Israel and Hamas, which erupted after an unprecedented bloody attack by the Palestinian movement in power in Gaza, The UN estimates that Gaza’s approximately 2.4 million residents – half of them children – are on the brink of “catastrophe”. because Israel denies them all access to water, electricity and fuel. As for food supplies, they will soon be exhausted.
Israel categorically refuses to open the border crossings with Gaza. But the Americans managed to convince Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to give the green light for aid to be sent from Egypt through the Rafah crossing, Gaza’s only opening to the world that is not in Israeli hands.
Although planes from all over the world have been bringing aid in food and medicine for days, none of these cargoes have so far been able to enter Gaza, where Israeli bombardment has killed nearly 3,800 people, of whom at least 1,500 children, and more than 12,000 injured, according to local authorities.
Egypt continues to repair bombed roads leading to the Palestinian terminal and today “Egyptian vehicles and equipment entered to repair the road from the Palestinian side,” eyewitnesses told AFP.
Concrete barriers placed on the border near the Rafah crossing were removed by the Egyptians overnight, according to a security source.
yesterday, thursday, Cairo announced that “Rafa will open on Friday,” without giving further details.
Previously, US President Joe Biden had said that he had succeeded in getting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to “let up to 20 trucks through”, a number that is completely insufficient, according to the UN, which estimates at least 100 trucks a day the needs of Gazans – 60% of whom were already dependent on international food aid before the war.
US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said US aid envoy to Gaza David Satterfield “met with Israeli and Egyptian officials to establish mechanisms to implement the agreement”.
Israel, which has enforced a strict blockade of Gaza for more than 16 years, has repeatedly said it fears that the aid will benefit Hamas. and not civilians and set his conditions: the aid would only go to “civilians” and exclusively “to the southern part of the Gaza Strip”, to which the Israeli army ordered Gazans to move.
Source: News Beast
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