Over 200 trucks have been positioned near the crossing for days. But Egypt’s state-owned Al-Qahera news, which is close to security agencies, said just 20 trucks crossed into Gaza.
NORTH SINAI, EGYPT - OCTOBER 21: Aid convoy trucks cross the Rafah border from the Egyptian side on October 21, 2023 in North Sinai, Egypt. The aid convoy, organized by a group of Egyptian NGOs, set off last weekend from Cairo for the Gaza-Egypt border crossing at Rafah. A week of negotiations followed about when the border, controlled by Egypt on one side and Hamas on the other, would be opened, until the first trucks were admitted on Saturday.
The Hamas-run government in Gaza also said the limited convoy “will not be able to change the humanitarian catastrophe,” calling for a secure corridor operating around the clock.NORTH SINAI, EGYPT - OCTOBER 21: Aid convoy trucks make their way to cross the Rafah border from the Egyptian side on October 21, 2023 in North Sinai, Egypt. The aid convoy, organized by a group of Egyptian NGOs, set off last weekend from Cairo for the Gaza-Egypt border crossing at Rafah.
The Hamas-run Housing Ministry said at least 30% of all homes in Gaza have been destroyed or heavily damaged in the war. That figure does not include the destruction of entire neighborhoods, which the U.N. refugee agency now describes as “inaccessible mounds of rubble.”that Israel says would be aimed at rooting out Hamas, an Islamic militant group that has ruled Gaza for 16 years. Israel said Friday it does not plan to take long-term control over.
Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Friday laid out a three-stage plan that seemed to suggest Israel did not intend to reoccupy the territory it left in 2005.
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