A total of 81 trucks with humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip this Wednesday through the Rafah border crossing, and 12 ambulances transported several injured people to Egyptian territory and removed foreigners stranded in that Palestinian enclave, according to several sources.
According to the Egyptian state television channel Al-Qahera News, 81 trucks loaded with medical supplies, water and food arrived in the Gaza Strip this Wednesday through Rafah, the only border post that is not controlled by Israel.
However, this new shipment did not include, once again, fuel, an essential resource for the operation of hospitals, bakeries and water purification stations, due to the veto imposed by Tel Aviv, for fear that the fuel would fall into the hands of Hamas. (Islamic Resistance Movement), in power in Gaza since 2007 and classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel.
According to humanitarian sources, 12 ambulances transported several injured people to Egypt, mainly treated at the Al Arish hospital, 40 kilometers from Rafah, and took foreign citizens and Palestinians with dual nationality out of the Gaza Strip, but they did not specify how many.
So far, more than 1,400 people have left Gaza for Egypt, since that Arab country opened the Rafah crossing on November 1, to allow entry to its territory to Palestinians with dual nationality and foreign citizens stranded in its territory. Palestinian, thanks to an agreement with Israel, brokered by the United States and Qatar.
Egypt estimated the total number of Palestinians with foreign passports and citizens of other countries awaiting passage to the North African country at around seven thousand people, of 60 nationalities.
The Gaza Strip has been intensely bombed by Israel since the unprecedented attack by the Islamist movement on Israeli territory on October 7, which left more than 1,400 dead, mostly civilians, around 5,000 injured and more than 200 hostages.
Israel’s retaliation began with cuts to food, water, electricity and fuel supplies and daily shelling, followed by a ground offensive that now has Gaza City under siege.
The war between Israel and Hamas, which today marks 33 days and continues to threaten to spread throughout the Middle East region, has so far left 10,569 dead in the Gaza Strip, most of them civilians, including 4,324 children, plus 25,400 injured. and Around 1.5 million displaced, according to the most recent report from local authorities.
Source: TSF
