UN: trucks entered Gaza with food, water and medicine

Humanitarian agency United Nations, OCHAconfirmed this Saturday that about twenty trucks with food, water and medicine had entered Gaza stripunder the control of an Islamist group Hamasthrough the Rafah crossing, on the border with Egypt.

Deputy Director of the OCHA Office in the Palestinian Territories, Andrea De Domenicohe told EFE that the Egyptian Red Cross is leading an operation to deliver aid to the Palestinian enclave.

He admitted that this aid will not be enough for the Palestinians who are in Gaza, where they live. 2.3 million peopleof which 1.4 million, according to OCHA, are internally displaced due to Israeli bombings in the northern part of the Strip.

De Domenico indicated that there are “negotiations” between interested parties to make aid delivery “sustainable” over time.

Volunteers from the Egyptian part of Rafah told EFE that no ambulances or fuel trucks entered, and that the Egyptian Red Crescent and non-governmental organizations that are part of the government coalition, the National Alliance for Civil Development, are providing assistance.

The Rafah crossing, in the south of Gaza and bordering Egypt, is the only way out of the Strip, since the other border crossings are with Israel.

The crossing has been closed since the start of Israel’s bombing campaign, in retaliation for a Hamas attack on Israeli soil on October 7, which left 1,400 dead and more than 200 kidnapped and taken to Gaza.

After download 20 humanitarian aid trucks As agreed in this first mission, the Rafah border crossing, which connects northern Egypt’s Sinai with the Gaza Strip, was closed.

President of the association The Red Crescent of North Sinai, by Khaled Saidhe told EFE that “the crossing was closed on both sides, the Egyptian and the Palestinian side, after 20 trucks that entered (the Belt) via the Rafah crossing unloaded their cargo and returned to Egyptian land.”.

Said stressed that the supplies delivered to the Palestinian side of the Rafah were “only medical aid”, that none of the shipments included fuel and that it was not known when new aid would be delivered to the Palestinian enclave and how many trucks would be able to enter.