About 150,000 liters of fuel intended for hospitals entered today Loop through The Rafah border crossing, which connects the belt with Egypt, Egyptian media reported.
The Egyptian television channels Al Qahera News and Extra News, close to the Egyptian government, announced that “about 150,000 liters of fuel entered from Rafah for hospitals in the Gaza Strip.”
Al Qahera news posted on their site (involved in the conflict) manage to increase the scope of aid” for the Palestinian enclave.
Namely, this very Friday, the representative World Health Organization (WHO) In the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Peeperkorn said that the mechanism for the entry of fuel into the Belt, which “must be continuous in order to guarantee a humanitarian operation”, could start working.
According to what he told journalists via video conference, the continuity of this system must be guaranteed “to operate desalination plants, bakeries and telecommunications again,” though he could not provide details on the regularity of the supply or whether Israel would impose conditions on the use of the fuel.
For his part, the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shukri, yesterday reiterated Egypt’s mediating role at a press conference attended by EFE, and emphasized efforts to speed up the entry of humanitarian aid into the Belt, especially fuel. not just for aid trucks, but for hospitals, bakeries and water treatment plants.
The entry of this fuel intended for hospitals in the enclave is the first since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza strip in the first week of last month, although trucks with medical supplies have been allowed to enter since October 21, albeit with a veto on fuel due to Israel’s fear that it will end up in the hands of the Islamist group.
Furthermore, it occurs two days after the first truck loaded with fuel entered so that UN Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) was able to resume the entry of humanitarian aid into its convoys after activity was paralyzed for a day due to a lack of fuel in the trucks.
It was then that UNRWA’s director in Gaza, Thomas White, expressed regret that Israel had restricted the fuel received for use by humanitarian organizations and that it could not be diverted for “water or hospitals”, whose services are at risk. reduced because fuel reserves were exhausted.
Source: Panama America
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