(Jerusalem) The Israeli army announced Monday evening the establishment of two additional checkpoints for the inspection of international humanitarian aid before its entry into the Palestinian territory through Rafah.
This crossing point, in Egypt, is the only one that international organizations can use to deliver aid to the population of Gaza.
Israel stressed on Monday that no new access would be opened, but that the Nitzana and Kerem Shalom crossings would be used to carry out checks before sending trucks through Rafah.
“This measure will double the amount of humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip,” the Israeli army said on the X social network.
The United Nations humanitarian agency OCHA said on Sunday that around 100 trucks had been entering Gaza every day since the end of a week-long truce on 1er December, while the daily average was 500 trucks before the war.
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A humanitarian aid truck returns after being unloaded at the Egyptian Rafah border crossing on December 4.
The additional checkpoints will screen “trucks carrying water, food, medical supplies and materials for building shelters,” according to a joint statement from the Israeli army and COGAT, the Israeli ministry’s arm. of Defense in charge of Palestinian civil affairs.
The United Nations General Assembly is due to meet on Tuesday to discuss the humanitarian crisis, after the United States vetoed a Security Council resolution last week calling for a ceasefire. humanitarian fire.
The Gaza Strip has been shelled by Israel since the start of the war triggered by an attack of unprecedented scale launched on October 7 by Hamas commandos infiltrated into Israel from Gaza, during which 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed. been massacred, according to the authorities.
According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, in power in Gaza, more than 18,200 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory by Israeli bombings since October 7, the vast majority of them women and young people under the age of 18.