“Since they closed the border crossing point, we don’t get anything anymore. In the past, the agency gave us some things like canned goods or vouchers. But after they closed the border crossing point, we don’t get anything. Some are running out of rice or sugar and the prices are going up. How are they going to get supplies?”
Stocks in warehouses of international aid agencies began to run low after the Israeli operation closed Gaza’s main border crossing with Egypt.
Another Israeli-Gaza border crossing was announced on Wednesday, May 8, and trucks were seen there. But help has not arrived and the cargoes would not be able to be processed because the warehouse workers fled during the invasion.
Meanwhile, the international community, including Israel’s strategic ally the United States and its president Joe Biden, continues to put pressure on Israel not to carry out a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where thousands of refugees have taken refuge. Washington has also suspended the supply of certain types of bombs.
However, the Israeli army operation and airstrikes continue, but the ground operation is only in the eastern part of Rafah, where about 50 Palestinian fighters are said to have been killed.
CONTEXT:
On October 7, 2023, “Hamas” carried out a massacre in Israel, murdering around 1,200 people, the absolute majority of whom were civilians. About 250 more people, including women, children and old people, were taken hostage by the terrorists and taken to the Gaza Strip.
Israel responded with a military operation in the Gaza Strip, and also increased its presence in the West Bank, promising to destroy the terrorist group Hamas.
So far, more than 33,000 people, mostly women and children, have died in the Gaza Strip, according to data from the Hamas-run Health Ministry, and the UN has warned of the growing threat of famine there.
The international community, including a number of Israel’s allies, have repeatedly pointed out Tel Aviv’s disproportionate response to the terrorist attack, but the government led by Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue the fight for the elimination of “Hamas” in the Gaza Strip.
