Humanitarian aid began arriving on Saturday in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, desperately awaited by its inhabitants who lack everything, a day after the release of two American women kidnapped during the bloody Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.
Egyptian state television showed several trucks passing through the huge gate at the Rafah border post. The delivery of aid has begun, a security source and an official from the Egyptian Red Crescent confirmed to AFP.
On the Palestinian side, an AFP journalist saw 36 semi-trailers heading towards the Egyptian part of the terminal to load the first shipments. Some 175 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid have been concentrated between Egypt and Gaza for days.
As the conflict enters its third week, this aid must make the difference “between life and death” for many Gazans, who lack water, food, medicine and electricity, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. .
