The official representative of the President of the United Nations (UN), Stephane Dujarric, said that the UN is ready to significantly increase the supply of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, but this requires opening additional crossing points. This was reported by TASS.
According to him, the organization will be ready to increase the supply of humanitarian aid and the current system is too cumbersome, trucks have to go south for two hours, then pass through checks and return to the Rafah checkpoint two hours later.
Dujarric emphasized that this is a labor-intensive process and opening additional checkpoints will help the situation.
Prior to this, Ismail Haniyi, Politburo press secretary of the Palestinian radical movement Hamas, Taher al-Nun statedIt was stated that negotiations to establish a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip continue.
7 October Hamas forces launched Several thousand rockets were fired at Israel and the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was announced. Thousands of militants invaded Israeli territory, seizing dozens of military equipment and more than a hundred hostages. In this context, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The Israel Defense Forces intervention operation was called “Iron Swords” and one of its goals was the destruction of Hamas. Israeli Air Force applied Hundreds of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip were attacked, and Israel’s National Security Council decided to cut off the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the strip. 13 October Israel reported The UN said 1.1 million Palestinians should be evacuated to southern Gaza within 24 hours before a ground operation in Gaza.
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Source: Gazeta
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