Forty aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip this Friday through the Rafah border crossing, which connects the territory with Egypt, and from where 30 wounded Palestinians left to receive treatment in the United Arab Emirates, humanitarian sources reported.
A member of the Red Crescent told the EFE agency that the vehicles managed to unload medical supplies and food in the Gaza Strip.
According to the same source, humanitarian personnel are working to ensure that the accumulated shipment of almost 150 trucks at the Rafah crossing enters the Palestinian enclave as quickly as possible.
At the same time, 30 wounded Palestinians took the opposite route and left the Gaza Strip through Rafah, from where they headed to Al Arish airport (40 kilometers away) to board a flight to Dubai for medical treatment, according to the Crescent. Red.
On the other hand, “842 foreigners are expected to leave Gaza, including around 193 Egyptians of Palestinian origin and 649 foreigners from the United States, Belarus, Sweden, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bahrain and Kazakhstan,” according to the list of evacuated people.
The Palestinian Authority, responsible for the Rafah crossing, announced today that 17,000 liters of fuel were delivered to the territory to power the telecommunications company’s generators.
On Thursday, the Palestinian telecommunications company Paltel announced the “suspension of all telecommunications services” due to a lack of fuel.
The Israeli authorities, who have been under siege of the Gaza Strip since October 7, stated that the war cabinet authorized the daily entry of two fuel trucks into the territory to “comply with a request from the United States.”
The United Nations, humanitarian organizations and the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip describe a catastrophic situation for the approximately 2.4 million inhabitants who remain in the small territory with shortages of food, water and other essential goods, and where hospitals are facing power outages due to lack of fuel to power the generators.
On October 7, fighters from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007 and classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel, carried out an attack of unprecedented dimensions against Israel. territory since the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, causing 1,200 deaths, mostly civilians, around 5,000 injured and more than 200 hostages.
In retaliation, Israel declared a war to “eradicate” Hamas, which began with food, water, electricity and fuel cuts in the Gaza Strip and daily shelling, followed by a ground offensive surrounding Gaza City.
The war between Israel and Hamas, which today marks 42 days and threatens to spread throughout the Middle East region, has so far left 12,000 dead in the Gaza Strip, most of them civilians, 30,000 injured and 3,250 missing under the rubble. . and more than 1.6 million displaced people, according to the most recent report from local authorities.
Source: TSF
