Israel announced on Friday that it had “temporarily” approved the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip through one of its crossing points, in order to decongest that of Rafah between the Palestinian territory and Egypt.
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“The cabinet temporarily approved the unloading of trucks on the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom crossing rather than sending them back to Rafah,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.
“The cabinet decision specifies that only humanitarian aid from Egypt will be delivered to Gaza in this way.”