Loaded with food, water and medical supplies, they await inspection before entering. However, UNRWA reports that thousands of people looted the aid center.
Two humanitarian aid convoys, each consisting of twenty trucks, loaded with food, water and medical supplies They entered this evening through Egypt’s Rafah border crossing to be inspected by Israeli authorities before entering the Gaza Strip.
Witnesses cited by the Efe agency assure that this is not the case fuela resource to which Israel does not allow access and which is extremely necessary for the continued functioning of hospitals, bakeries and water treatment plants or so that humanitarian aid itself can be delivered to the people of Gaza.
These would be the seventh and eighth convoys to enter the country since last Saturday, when Israel allowed humanitarian aid to enter through Egypt for the residents of the Gaza Strip.
Israel has already claimed the lives of nearly 8,000 Palestinians while turning a deaf ear to calls for a ceasefire
Only 84 trucks are currently allowed: 20 both last Saturday and Sunday; 14 on Monday, 8 on Tuesday, 12 on Thursday and another ten on Friday. With those of the past few hours it would be 124.
The UN recalls that before the start of the war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas, there were some 500 trucks of humanitarian aid entered Gaza every daywhile an average of 12 per day have been received over the past week.
In addition, the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA) reports that thousands of people have broken into warehouses and distribution centers in the central and southern Gaza Strip and taken supplies stored there.
These people are said to have taken wheat flour and other ‘survival items’ such as hygiene equipment, and that one of the raided warehouses, in Deir al Balah, located in the center of the Strip, contained supplies that had arrived in humanitarian convoys. originating from Egypt.
Source: EITB
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