First aid supplies from Egypt arrived in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. Twenty Egyptian Red Crescent trucks passed through the Rafah border crossing, delivering food and water, among other things. But this aid could be just a drop in the ocean, warned UNICEF, the United Nations children’s fund.
On Saturday, the organization was only able to send water to 22,000 people in Gaza for one day. At least a million children and young people live in the area alone. Moreover, only five percent of the usual amount of water is currently produced.
Here you see the note from UNICEF.
As reported, the border crossing at Rafah was opened on Saturday morning. The first convoy carried 60 tons of food from the UN World Food Program (WFP), including cans of tuna, flour, pasta, beans and tomato paste. “This food is urgently needed, conditions in southern Gaza are catastrophic,” said WFP Director Cindy McCain. On the Egyptian side there is another 930 tons of food and 1.1 million people will be supported in the next two months.
Emergency aid coordinator: ‘People have been suffering for decades’
UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths is confident that the first humanitarian convoy of 20 trucks will soon be followed by others. “I am confident that this delivery will be the beginning of a sustained effort to provide the people of the Gaza Strip with essential goods such as food, water, medicine and fuel safely, reliably, unconditionally and unhindered. The people of Gaza have been suffering for decades. The international community cannot continue to abandon them,” he said in Cairo on Saturday.
Fuel and fuel are not part of the deliveries, according to a military spokesman. Moreover, only the south of the Gaza Strip should be reached. It was initially unclear how long the border would remain open. The Israeli government had agreed to open the border crossing to provide water, food and medicine to the Palestinian people. US President Joe Biden had previously mediated.
Here you can see the tweet from the British Foreign Secretary.
Some observers fear the aid could remain a one-off event. “The aid is a lifeline for those who are suffering. But it can’t be a one-off. “The UK remains committed to providing humanitarian access to Gaza,” British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday.
Source: Krone
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