Israeli protesters blocked humanitarian aid access to the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom border crossing on Sunday. As a correspondent for the AFP news agency reported, the demonstrators are refusing aid deliveries until all hostages abducted to the Palestinian territory by Hamas and its allies are released.
“About 200 demonstrators” had gathered in the area of the border crossing, Cogat, Israel’s civil affairs authority in the occupied Palestinian territories, said on Sunday. The Israeli military subsequently announced that the area around the border crossing was now a “closed military zone.”
Family members taken hostage in protest
Some protesters are relatives of hostages, as the AFP reporter reported, citing the protesters’ statements. “We are not friends with the people of Gaza, they are our enemies and enemies are not helped,” said protester Batia Cheremberg from Bet Shemesh, more than 100 kilometers away.
There are only two entrances available for aid deliveries to the residents of the Gaza Strip: the Kerem Shalom border crossing leads from southern Israel into the Palestinian territory, while the Rafah border crossing is located on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Israelis had already demonstrated at the Kerem Shalom border crossing on Thursday and Friday, preventing trucks carrying aid deliveries from entering.
In a preliminary ruling, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has called on Israel, among other things, to allow “urgently necessary” humanitarian aid for civilians in the Palestinian territory.
Source: Krone
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