The first twenty aid trucks arrived in the Gaza Strip this Saturday, but this is just a drop of water given the desperate situation of the population, which has been subjected to an all-out siege and constant bombing by Israeli forces for two weeks.
The first aid convoy to enter the Gaza Strip since the conflict between Israel and Hamas began carried water, food, medicine and surgical equipment, but not the fuel needed to keep hospital generators running and desalination and water treatment plants running. A second UN-organized humanitarian convoy is expected to depart this Sunday. “It is important that there are no interruptions,” says a representative of the organization.
While this first shipment of humanitarian aid is a positive step, it is clearly not enough to meet the needs of the population: just to give you an idea, before the conflict, about 450 aid trucks entered Gaza every day.
“The people of Gaza need more, much more – they need a permanent distribution of aid,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at a summit that this Saturday brought together leaders of some Arab countries in Cairo (Egypt) and Europeans discussed the conflict, but it ended without any agreement or proposed compromise to guarantee the protection of civilians or to avoid an escalation of hostilities.
Author: Ricardo Ramos
Source: CM Jornal
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