Meanwhile, the death toll from the Israeli attacks rises to 7,326 and 18,967 have already been injured.
A team of Ten foreign doctors entered the Gaza Strip today through the Egyptian border crossing at Rafah, together with a convoy consisting of others ten trucks loaded with humanitarian aidBut without fuelvarious local sources report.
The spokesman for the Palestinian side of the border crossing, Wael Abu Omar, explained that the trucks are “loaded with water, food and medicine.”
In turn, sources on the Egyptian side of Rafah indicated to information agencies that the ten doctors belong to the Red Cross, an organization that manages the entry of aid through the border, but did not specify their nationality. Likewise, they confirmed that the new shipment of humanitarian aid does not contain fuel, a resource that the Israeli authorities do not allow and which is extremely necessary to power hospitals, desalination plants and other essential services.
With this entry of humanitarian aid, there are now 84 trucks, in six different batches, that have entered the Palestinian enclave via Egypt since Israel allowed the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza last Saturday.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for the Palestinian Territories, Lynn Hastings, said this at a press conference emergency generators that power many essential services are shut down one by one due to lack of fuel.” However, he added that a limited amount of fuel can enter Gaza through a pumping station “paid for by Qatar and brought to Rafah with the knowledge of Israel.”
In this way, the UN Refugee Agency (UNRWA), one of the main humanitarian organizations operating in Gaza, has gained access to 200,000 liters of fuel, while it needs around 130,000 every day, Hastings explains.
More than 7,300 dead and almost 19,000 injured
As humanitarian aid arrives, the number of victims of Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip has already risen 7,326 dead and 18,967 injuredaccording to the latest information distributed by the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Among the deceased there are 3,038 minors, 1,726 women and 414 elderly peoplewho have lost their lives since October 7 last year, when the war between Israel and Hamas began following the October 7 Hamas attack that left 1,400 dead.
Gaza’s Health Ministry has indicated that Israeli aviation has killed 298 people in the past few hours, most of whom have been displaced in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
At least that’s what he added 57 health facilities have been targeted by bombings Israelis since the start of the war and that at least twelve hospitals and 32 primary care centers are out of service due to the attacks and the lack of fuel.
Hamas published a list of the names of 6,747 people killed in Gaza between October 7 and 26 as a result of Israeli bombing, adding that it does not include the 281 dead who could not be identified.
Source: EITB
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