Three trucks carrying more than 120 thousand liters of fuel will enter the Gaza Strip on the morning of Saturday, November 18. According to the Egyptian television channel, they will pass through the Rafah checkpoint. Al Kahera News.
The message said, “3 trucks carrying 129 thousand liters of fuel will enter Gaza at 9.00 am today (10.00 Moscow time – socialbites.ca).”
Israel’s military cabinet had previously approved a US recommendation to allow the country’s Defense Army (IDF) and Shin Bet security service to enter Gaza for two tanks of fuel per day for UN needs.
Before this, the World Health Organization (WHO) statedThe Gaza Strip needs 500 trucks of humanitarian aid every day.
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s response to Operation Iron Sword was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint only after October 20, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region.
Russians who previously fled the Gaza Strip said about life in a war zone.