Before the outbreak of conflict, an average of about 450 aid trucks were arriving there daily. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Workers gather as trucks carrying aid arrive at the Palestinian side of the border with Egypt, in Rafah, on Oct 21.A convoy including 20 aid trucks was due to enter the Gaza Strip on Saturday from Egypt carrying medicine and food supplies.Trucks head to the Egyptian side of the border to be loaded with aid that will be delivered to Palestinians in Gaza, in Rafah on Oct 21.
Hamas’ media office said the truckloads of aid “will not change the catastrophic medical conditions in Gaza”. The supplies are just a small fraction of what is required in Gaza, where Israel’s “total siege” has left the enclave’s 2.3 million people running out of food, water, medicine and fuel in what the UN says is a budding humanitarian catastrophe.
Addressing a peace summit in Cairo, UN chief Antonio Guterres pleaded on Saturday for a “humanitarian ceasefire” in the war between Israel and Hamas, demanding global “action to end this godawful nightmare”. Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israel’s retaliatory air and missile strikes have killed at least 4,385 Palestinians, including hundreds of children, while over a million people have been displaced.
Hamas said it fired rockets towards Israeli’s biggest city, Tel Aviv, on Saturday in response to Israel’s killing of civilians overnight. The Israeli military said on Saturday that aid entering Gaza would not include fuel and would go to southern areas of the enclave, where Israel has urged civilians to congregate.
Arab leaders at the Cairo Peace Summit condemned Israel’s two-week-old bombardment of Gaza and demanded renewed efforts to reach a Middle East peace settlement to end a decades-long cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
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