'Drop in the ocean': UN-backed aid could soon enter Gaza, but only at a trickle for now
Friday, 20 October 2023 President Joe Biden has reached an agreement with the Egyptian president to allow 20 trucks of humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. The aid, which includes medical supplies and food, will be overseen by the United Nations and Red Crescent Societies. The trucks will enter through the Rafah Crossing on Egypt's border with Gaza, and UN observers will inspect the aid before it enters Gaza.
"20 trucks is a drop in the ocean of need right now in Gaza," says Michael Ryan, Executive Director, of the World Health Oragnisation’s Health Emergencies Programme, adding that "humanitarian assistance needs to move every day" from Egypt into the war-torn Gaza Strip. Hundreds of trucks full of...
The chief of the UN agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) decries the situation for UN workers on the ground in Gaza, saying that 64 of his UNRWA colleagues had been killed in just over three weeks,..
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly says the UK is working with Egypt and Israel to secure a temporary "humanitarian pause" to get aid into the Gaza Strip. Speaking while on a visit to the United..
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Friday, 20 October 2023
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