CARIO: The Egyptian government has said that 130,000 litres of diesel and around four trucks of gas will be provided daily to the Gaza Strip during truce. Diaa Rashwan, the chief of Egypt’s State Information Service, said in a statement that around 200 trucks of help and relief would enter the strip daily.
Similarly, UN Humanitarian agencies and organizations preparing to go into the Gaza Strip continued to build up stocks of desperately needed help for the war-torn Gaza on Thursday, amid delays in the execution of a temporary halt in the Israeli assaults and exchange of captives.
In a statement, Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesman confirmed that a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release will begin on Friday morning.
Amid increasing hunger, UN World Food Programme (WFP) head Cindy McCain stated that the agency was rapidly mobilizing to scale up help inside Gaza once safe access is allowed.
Relief teams Stand Ready to Provide Critical Help to Besieged Gaza: UN
Her remarks followed UN emergency relief head Martin Griffiths’s statement on the Organization readiness to increase the volume of aid and relief brought into the Gaza Strip and distributed across the area.
McCain said that WFP trucks are waiting at the Rafah crossing, loaded with food for families in homes and shelters across Gaza, and flour for bakeries to restart operations. She hoped that more fuel will be let into Gaza that their trucks can carry in much-needed supplies and that once again bread will be available as a lifeline to hundreds of thousands of people daily. More than 1.7 million people in Gaza are internally displaced due war in the region.
