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On October 19, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi agreed to open the Rafah border crossing between the southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, allowing the first 20 trucks carrying humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.
Speaking to reporters after a phone call with President Sisi while en route from Israel to the United States, US President Joe Biden said that Israel's wartime cabinet had decided to allow essential relief supplies from Egypt into Gaza, a move that the Egyptian foreign minister described as "a positive development".
According to Alarabiya News, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said that the Egyptian government and the Egyptian Red Crescent will coordinate with the United Nations to monitor the delivery of humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip. The delivery of relief goods could take place as early as October 20. Meanwhile, the United Nations said the Gaza Strip needs a huge amount of humanitarian aid, about 100 trucks per day.
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| Palestinian people wait at the Rafah border crossing |
The need for aid in the Gaza Strip was already dire before the escalation of violence between Hamas and Israel, the UN's emergency relief coordinator Martin Griffiths told CNN Europe. The destruction of a hospital has added to the pressure on Gaza's collapsing health system, depriving the territory of 45,000 patients a year.
On the same day, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said that the country had sent 27 tons of aid to people in the Gaza Strip and that the goods would be quickly transferred from Egypt to this territory.
The Irish Government also announced an immediate humanitarian aid package of €13 million for the Palestinians, bringing Ireland’s contribution to UN agencies supporting the Palestinians to almost double its initial target of €16 million for this year.
After British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrived in Israel, also on October 19, King Abdullah II of Jordan went to Egypt in a diplomatic effort to stop the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip.
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