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Egypt Opens Rafah Border for Humanitarian Aid to Gaza

In order to provide some badly needed help to Palestinians in Gaza who running out of food, medication, and water in the area that under an Israeli siege. The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza opened. According to a statement from the Palestinian organization Hamas, a convoy of 20 relief vehicles bringing food and medication arrived in the Gaza Strip on Saturday from Egypt.

Egypt Opens Rafah Border for Humanitarian Aid to Gaza

Over 200 trucks, each carrying over 3,000 tons of assistance. Have been waiting to enter Gaza for days near the bridge. According to prior statements from Hamas’s media office. The humanitarian assistance convoy that expected to arrive today consists of 20 vehicles that are carrying food supplies (canned goods), medication, and medical equipment.

The delivery hailed by Martin Griffiths, the UN’s emergency assistance coordinator. Who said it came after “days of deep and intense negotiations with all relevant sides to ensure that aid operation into Gaza resumes as quickly as possible and under the right conditions.”

“I am confident that this delivery will be the beginning of a sustainable effort to provide essential supplies to the people of Gaza. In a safe, dependable, unconditional, and unhindered manner,” he continued.

NO Fuel

Israel has reaffirmed that gasoline would not included in the humanitarian supplies from Egypt that will arrive in Gaza on Saturday. The people of the besieged enclave and the aid organizations providing necessary services are very concerned. Since fuel is needed to pump the water supply and power generators. Used to run vital institutions like hospitals.

image of how aids are allowed to enter gaza

Traditionally, water availability required residents to fill up tanks. They cannot run the trucks required to pump or deliver water without gasoline. Due to a lack of fuel, Gaza’s last operational saltwater desalination plant shut down on Sunday. While some hospitals are already operating on extremely limited fuel supply. Already had to shut down significant health departments, others entirely shut down.

Thousands of people, including newborn infants in incubators, are immediately at risk if there is no fuel. Many patients, including those with cancer and renal disease, are reportedly already on the verge of death. Fuel is critically essential, said Juliette Touma, UNRWA’s head of communications, to Al Jazeera. “Fuel must brought in. We will need gasoline if we to continue providing aid to individuals as expected and desired.

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