Cairo (Al-Ittihad)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and American President Joe Biden agreed to pay quantities of humanitarian aid and fuel, to be delivered to the United Nations at the Kerem Shalom crossing for entry into the Gaza Strip, temporarily, until a legal mechanism is reached to restart the Rafah crossing from the Palestinian side.
The Egyptian presidency said that Sisi agreed to send humanitarian aid temporarily through the Kerem Shalom crossing “until a legal mechanism is reached to restart the Rafah crossing from the Palestinian side.”
A statement issued by the Palestinian Presidency, reported by the Palestinian News Agency, stated that the Presidency had agreed with Egypt to send humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, temporarily, from the Kerem Shalom crossing.
The White House said that US President Joe Biden welcomed Egypt’s commitment to allow the flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing on a temporary basis.
Biden also informed Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a phone call that he supports efforts to reopen the Rafah crossing on terms acceptable to both Egypt and Israel and that the United States will send a high-level team to Cairo next week for talks, according to a statement from the White House.
In addition, the United Nations said that aid access to the Gaza Strip is severely limited, as less than a thousand trucks of humanitarian aid have entered the Strip since May 7, after Israel began a military operation in Rafah in the south of the Strip. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that between May 7 and May 23, only 906 trucks entered the Strip, which has a population of 2.3 million people, where famine looms amid the Israeli war on Gaza.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that about 800 of those trucks were loaded with food supplies.
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