Egypt has announced “permanent” access for aid deliveries to Gaza through the Rafah crossing. “Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and US President Joe Biden have agreed on a sustainable delivery of humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing,” presidential spokesman Ahmed Fahmy said. He did not provide a date on which deliveries could begin.
After a phone call with Sisi on Wednesday evening, Biden announced that he had promised to allow “up to 20 trucks initially” to pass through the previously closed border crossing. Further deliveries could follow after that, it said.
Israel no longer wants to block
Israel had previously said it would allow aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip, which were initially blocked. Israel will not oppose Biden’s call to provide food, water and medicine to civilians in the southern Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement on Wednesday.
“We must not reach Hamas”
Aid deliveries from Egypt will be allowed as long as these deliveries do not reach Hamas, the report said. However, no aid deliveries to the population in the Gaza Strip will begin from Israeli territory until Hamas, which rules there, releases all of its approximately 200 hostages kidnapped from Israel. Biden also emphasized that the deliveries “will end” if Hamas seizes them.
A statement from US President Biden on the situation in Gaza was shared on Platform
China supports Egypt
Chinese President Xi Jinping supports Egypt’s efforts to build humanitarian corridors, he said in talks with Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbuli, according to Chinese state media. The most important thing now is a ceasefire and a quick end to the war.
Hundreds of trucks carrying aid are waiting at the Rafah border crossing to bring aid to the Gaza Strip. So far, the only border crossing not controlled by Israel has not been opened by Egypt. One of the reasons given was the shelling of the border crossing by the Israeli army.
The supply stopped after a terrorist attack
Hamas killed about 1,400 people in a major attack on Israel on October 7 and abducted about 200 others to the Gaza Strip. Israel then sealed off Palestinian territory, cut off supplies of fuel, food and water and launched counterattacks.
Source: Krone
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