Russia will soon deliver 27 tons of humanitarian aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip, from Egypt, a neighboring country to the enclave besieged since the Islamist movement Hamas attacked Israel, the Russian Government announced this Thursday.
“A special plane (…) took off from the Ramenskoye airfield near Moscow, bound for El-Arich airport in Egypt. Russian humanitarian aid will be sent delivered to representatives of the Egyptian Red Crescent to be sent to the Gaza Strip,” said Deputy Minister Ilia Denisov, quoted in a statement from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.
“The population will receive flour, sugar, rice and pasta,” he added.
The American president, Joe Biden, and the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, announced on Wednesday that international aid will be able to reach Gaza, where there is a threat of humanitarian catastrophe, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Biden, who visited Tel Aviv on Wednesday, claimed to have obtained authorization from the Egyptian president to “allow the passage of up to 20 trucks” at the Rafah crossing, the only one not controlled by Israel.
However, This help is unlikely to arrive before Fridaydue to the works to be carried out on the road, destroyed by Israeli bombings.
Russia, for its part, did not specify when aid should be delivered to civilians in the Gaza Strip.
On October 7, Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, launched a surprise attack on Israeli territory, called Operation “Al-Aqsa Storm”, with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed rebels on the ground. , sea and air.
In response, Israel bombed several Hamas facilities in that Palestinian territory from the air, in an operation it called “Iron Swords.”
The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu declared war on Hamas classified as a terrorist movement by Israel, the United States, the EU, among others.
The Hamas attack left 1,400 dead in Israel, while the Israeli response left at least 3,478 dead in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians on both sides, according to local authorities.
Source: TSF
