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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has visited the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in the northern Sinai Peninsula to oversee efforts to boost the delivery of humanitarian aid across the border into the Palestinian coastal strip.
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| UN aid convoy enters Gaza Strip through Rafah border crossing |
According to Reuters, on the morning of October 21, a convoy of trucks carrying international humanitarian aid passed through the Rafah border gate from Egypt to the southern Gaza Strip after many days of diplomatic disputes over the conditions for delivering relief goods.
Rafah is the main route into and out of the Gaza Strip, which is not controlled by Israel, and is central to efforts to deliver aid to Gaza's 2.3 million residents. The first convoy of 20 vehicles from the Egyptian Red Crescent has entered Gaza, while another 36 vehicles are waiting in line to enter the blockaded territory. Four ambulances, including two from the United Nations and two from the Red Cross, are also preparing to enter Gaza.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has visited the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in the northern Sinai Peninsula to oversee efforts to boost the delivery of humanitarian aid across the border into the Palestinian coastal strip.
In a statement released on October 20, the Hamas Islamist movement said that in response to Qatar's efforts, it had released two American hostages for "humanitarian reasons."
This is the first time Hamas has released hostages since the conflict broke out nearly 2 weeks ago. Tens of thousands of people in major cities in South Africa, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Australia... continued to take to the streets to demand that Israel end its airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and support the Palestinian people. The fierce airstrikes and shelling have killed about 4,100 people as of October 21.
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