Help begins dripping into Gaza

First trucks cross from Egypt as UN alerts of ‘humanitarian disaster’ Egyptian volunteers commemorate with a Palestinian flag next to trucks bring humanitarian help from Egyptian NGOs driving into Gaza bymeansof the Rafah crossing from the Egyptian side on Saturday. (Photo: Reuters) CAIRO – Trucks with humanitarian help that hasactually been stranded in Egypt wentinto the Rafah border crossing with the besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday after days of diplomatic wrangling over conditions for providing the relief. Television images revealed trucks moving into the border crossing location from the Egyptian side. Rafah is the primary path in and out of the Gaza Strip that is not managed by Israel, and the focus of efforts to provide help to Gaza’s 2.3 million locals. Israel enforced a overall blockade and introduced air strikes on Gaza in reaction to a lethal attack on Israeli soil by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct 7. Hamas, which has regulated Gaza giventhat 2007, stated a relief help convoy of 20 trucks would gointo on Saturday, bring medication, medical products and a restricted quantity of food and canned items. However, the Hamas media workplace stated the anticipated truckloads of help “will not modification the devastating medical conditions in Gaza”. Four trucks bring health products have began to relocation towards the Rafah border crossing, on their method to Gaza, the World Health Organization stated in a declaration on Saturday. The organisation likewise stated it was working with the Egyptian and Palestine Red Crescent societies to makesure the safe passage of the important materials. The World Food Program stated the convoy brought 60 tonnes of food. The United
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