Gaza – The people of the Gaza Strip are awaiting the entry into force of the temporary truce agreement, according to which the Rafah commercial crossing with Egypt will open, for the flow of relief and medical aid, including fuel, as the Gazans are looking forward to it with the hope that it will reduce the risks of the humanitarian catastrophe that has been facing them for two months.
It is expected that the Egyptian authorities will open the Rafah commercial crossing with the Gaza Strip – tomorrow morning, Friday – to allow the passage of trucks of humanitarian, relief and medical aid, including fuel, in implementation of the temporary truce agreement announced by the State of Qatar between Hamas and the Israeli occupation, which will last for 4 days and can be extended.
Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari said that the truce is in the Gaza Strip Gaza It will start tomorrow, Friday, at 7 a.m. local time.
In continuation of its role in supervising the aid trucks that arrived through the Rafah crossing during the past weeks, the Palestine Red Crescent Society will undertake The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA)Supervising aid during the scheduled days of the truce.
Israel had stipulated, according to a tripartite agreement with Egypt and the United States, that there should be no movement agitation role and that this aid does not reach them.
Aid trucks
Official sources told Al Jazeera Net that it is not known how many aid trucks will return to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing on the first day of the truce, but they confirmed at the same time that they include several types of materials and goods, including fuel.
The spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, Dr. Muhammad Abu Musabih, told Al Jazeera Net that a committee was formed to supervise the humanitarian aid received through the Rafah crossing, and was supervising it on Friday in coordination with UNRWA.
According to a spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent, it is not known exactly what types of materials and goods the trucks carry, stressing that they will include food supplies, medical supplies, and fuel.
For her part, she said Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades: The truce includes: Introducing 200 trucks daily of relief and medical supplies to all areas of the Gaza Strip, in addition to Bringing in 4 fuel trucks daily, as well as cooking gas, according to a statement received by Al Jazeera Net.
Regarding the areas that benefit from this aid, Musabih explained that discussions are currently taking place between the Crescent and UNRWA, to send a humanitarian convoy carrying quantities of this aid, including fuel, to Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip, which are the areas isolated by the Israeli occupation, and it is trying through continuous bombing and warnings to Pushing its population towards the south of the Strip.
Because of this isolation, and the violent targeting of all means of life, all hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip were out of service, and according to a spokesman for the Crescent Society, consultations are currently taking place to discuss the possibility of establishing a “medical point” in the Arab National (Baptist) Hospital, to which medical aid and fuel can reach. To provide care and medical service to the remaining residents of Gaza City and its north.
Rafah crossing is ready
More than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip hope that the truce aid will have an impact on their deteriorating humanitarian situation, as a result of the absolute siege imposed by the occupying state, coinciding with the fierce war it has been waging on this small coastal strip since the seventh of last October.
Rafah crossing spokesman Wael Abu Mohsen told Al Jazeera Net that the Rafah commercial crossing was operating 3 days a week before the outbreak of the current war, for trucks to pass for the purpose of trade, carrying a variety of materials for various humanitarian needs, including fuel.
According to Abu Mohsen, the crossing is fully prepared to receive aid trucks, and nothing is missing to ensure the continued flow of these trucks on a daily and continuous basis.
Commercial traffic through this crossing stopped after the aggression, and its doors were only opened to trucks carrying aid of canned food, drinking water bottles, and medical supplies, which local and international organizations and bodies described as “scarce” and not preventing the disaster from occurring.
The Gaza Strip is surrounded by 8 crossings, 6 of which connect the Gaza Strip to Israel, which closes 4 of them completely, and opens two crossings intermittently: Beit Hanoun (Erez), which is designated for individuals in the northern Gaza Strip, and Karm Shalom Commercial in the southeast of the Gaza Strip, and they are subject to full Israeli control. While Egypt controls the Rafah land crossing, both its commercial and commercial partsDesignated for individuals.
The occupation authorities impose strict conditions on the movement of the crossings, and import and export between Gaza and West Bank markets and abroad are subject to restrictions linked to capricious Israeli approvals, and are subject to sudden decisions with flimsy justifications.
With the outbreak of war, Israel completely closed the Kerem Shalom commercial crossing, and prevented the supply of all humanitarian supplies through it to the Gaza Strip, where a famine crisis is looming, with markets and shops running out of goods and merchandise.
Famine is knocking on Gaza’s doors
In turn, Director General of the Government Media Office, Ismail Al-Thawabta, said, “We have launched 100 appeals to Egypt and the countries of the world regarding the necessity of permanently opening the Rafah crossing, to be a safe passage for the flow of humanitarian, relief, medical, and fuel aid, to prevent the occurrence of a disaster.”
And in his speech For Al Jazeera Net, Al-Thawabta described all the aid that has entered the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing so far as “a drop in the ocean and does not cover 1% of the needs of the population, to whom 500 trucks loaded with all their daily needs, and various types of materials and goods, including fuel, were delivered daily through the crossing.” Karam Abu Salem.
Al-Thawabta hopes that the Rafah crossing will continue to operate, ensuring the flow of humanitarian and medical aid and fuel, to put an end to the deteriorating catastrophic conditions in the Strip, and to save what remains of the means of life, especially in the areas of Gaza City and the northern Strip, which are reeling on the verge of famine, as a result of the occupation’s refusal to receive aid. 7 weeks ago.
According to official data, 26 hospitals and 58 health centers were out of service, water wells and sewage treatment plants stopped working, and communications and Internet services deteriorated as a result of the power outage since the outbreak of the war and the depletion of fuel.
Al-Thawabta said that more than one and a half million people are currently crowded into shelters, facilities, and homes in the southern Gaza Strip, as a result of the crime of forced displacement of the residents of the northern Gaza Strip, and they are in dire need of humanitarian and relief aid that will be received through the Rafah crossing, after goods and merchandise became scarce in markets and shops, and many were forced to From its owners to close it.
