The Kerem Shalom checkpoint on the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel and the Rafah checkpoint on the region’s border with Egypt may be opened soon, and negotiations on this are ongoing. This was announced by UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths at a press conference in Geneva. TASS.
Griffiths emphasized that the people of Gaza need to know that the aid organizations they have relied on for decades will no longer abandon them.
According to the diplomat, there are now two “horsemen of the apocalypse” in the region (characters from the biblical book “Apocalypse” – editor’s note) – conflict and disease.
The UN representative suggested that the situation in the Gaza Strip would worsen as it is difficult to sustainably supply hospitals and safely desalinate water.
The situation in the Middle East escalated further when thousands of Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip entered Israel on October 7 as part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque Flood and took more than 200 people hostage. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedWhen it was said that the country was at war, the Israeli operation was called “Iron Swords”.
Since the first day of the operation, Israel has launched massive rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip, while water, food, electricity and fuel supplies to the region have been stopped. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be made from the Rafah checkpoint on the Egyptian border only after October 20.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. Before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region. Clashes still continue in the center of Gaza.
Former Israeli President Isaac Herzog statedThe Hamas command center is located below the central hospital in the Gaza Strip.