Israel evaded and accused Egypt. Cairo denies its responsibility for preventing the entry of aid into Gaza News

Oil Egypt Today, Friday, what the Israeli defense team described as “allegations and lies.” international justice Court“, that Cairo is responsible for preventing the entry of humanitarian and relief aid into Gaza strip From the Egyptian sideRafah crossing.

The head of the Egyptian Information Service, Diaa Rashwan, said that the inconsistency and lies of the Israeli allegations are clear from the fact that all Israeli officials have confirmed dozens of times in public statements since the start of the aggression on Gaza that they will not allow aid to enter the Gaza Strip, especially fuel, because this is part of the war that Israel is waging. On the sector.

And it was raised South Africa A lawsuit was filed before the International Court of Justice on December 29, accusing Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a devastating war for more than 3 months that has left tens of thousands martyred and wounded and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.

Israel’s lawyer Christopher Stucker said before the International Court of Justice on Friday that access to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing is controlled by Egypt, and Israel has no obligation to do so under international law.

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Documented evidence

However, the head of the Egyptian State Information Service said in a statement published on the body’s website and highlighted by local media, “When the occupying state found itself before the International Court of Justice accused, with documented evidence, of crimes against humanity, it resorted to throwing accusations against Egypt in an attempt to escape its likely conviction from… side of the court.

He explained that Egypt’s sovereignty extends only to the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing, while the other side of it in Gaza is subject to the actual occupation authority, which was actually demonstrated in the mechanism for the entry of aid from the Egyptian side to the Kerem Shalom crossing, which connects the Gaza Strip to Israeli territory, where it is inspected from the outside. By the Israeli army, before allowing it to enter the territory of the Gaza Strip.

Open without interruption

Rashwan pointed out that Egypt announced dozens of times in official statements that the Rafah crossing from the Egyptian side is open without interruption, demanding that the Israeli side not prevent the flow of humanitarian aid to the Strip and to stop deliberately obstructing or delaying the entry of aid under the pretext of inspecting it.

He pointed out that many of the world’s senior officials, especially the Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres They visited the Rafah crossing from the Egyptian side, but were unable to cross it into the Gaza Strip, due to the Israeli army preventing them from doing so, or because they feared for their lives due to the continuous bombing of the Strip.

Rashwan stated that the negotiations that took place over the humanitarian truces, which lasted for a week in the Gaza Strip, in which Egypt, Qatar, and the United States were parties, witnessed extreme intransigence on the part of the Israeli side in determining the amount of aid that the occupation forces would allow to enter the Strip, given that they control it militarily, which resulted in Finally, the quantities announced at the time were entered.

Intentional obstruction

Rashwan stressed that what confirms the occupation army’s control over the entry of aid into the Strip and its deliberate obstruction of it is what the American President demanded of it. joe biden By opening the Kerem Shalom crossing to facilitate their entry, which was announced by his National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, on December 13, as good news.

Rashwan concluded that if the Israeli authorities want food, medical supplies, and fuel to enter the Strip, they have 6 crossings from their territory with the Strip, which they must open immediately for trade and not for the entry of aid, especially since this trade with the Gaza Strip in 2022 amounted to more than 4.7 percent. Billions of dollars for the benefit of the Israeli commercial and industrial sector.