The Palestinian Red Crescent today announced the arrival of new trucks with humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip from the Rafah crossing, bordering Egypt, which was closed since the temporary truce between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas expired yesterday.
“The Red Crescent workers have received these aid trucks through Rafah thanks to our partners at the Egyptian Red Crescent,” the organization explained on its social network X, without giving further details at the moment.
According to the Egyptian news network Al Qahera News, there are 50 trucks with humanitarian aid and two with fuel.
The UN had reported yesterday that the Rafah border crossing was closed due to the resumption of fighting after the week-long truce.
“With the resumption of war, we fear that the continuation (of humanitarian aid supply) is in doubt. The Rafah checkpoint is closed. We need the resumption of the humanitarian truce and not a return to war,” he said the spokesperson for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Jens Laerke, to the press.
Faced with this situation, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called for the resumption of sending assistance at the levels reached during the week of the temporary cessation of hostilities, when hundreds of trucks entered the enclave. per day.
“Deliveries of essential items to Gaza must be urgently resumed and restored at least to the levels reached during the recent truce, but much more is needed than that,” the Ethiopian doctor wrote on his X social media account (formerly Twitter ).
This escalation of hostilities began on October 7, when Hamas militiamen burst into Israel, in a surprise attack that left more than 1,200 dead, mostly civilians, and 240 kidnapped, including twenty Argentines.
In response, Israel vowed to eliminate Hamas and unleashed a campaign of air and ground attacks on Gaza that the enclave’s government said left more than 15,000 people dead, most of them civilians.
The one-week temporary cessation of hostilities allowed hostages to be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners: 110 hostages were released since the beginning of the conflict, 105 of them during the truce, mostly Israeli women and minors, and a dozen of them Argentineans, and in exchange Israel He released 240 people.
Source: Ambito
