Cairo, Oct. 24 (Prensa Latina) Several planes loaded with humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip landed in Egypt in the last few hours as part of the international mobilization to help the attacked enclave, Al Ahram newspaper reported today.
The newspaper, citing Egyptian Red Crescent sources, announced the arrival of planes from the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Turkey, Iraq and Algeria.
Previously, several of these countries had already sent shipments of essential products.
The devices arrived at El-Arish airport in the northeastern Sinai Peninsula, which Cairo authorities have designated as an international aid center for the neighboring Gaza Strip.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry urged the world to send supplies of essential products to this terminal for transport by land through the Rafah border crossing, a few dozen kilometers away.
After several days of intensive negotiations, the first 20 trucks carrying food, water and medicine arrived in Rafah last Saturday. Since then, two more caravans have been added.
However, several UN humanitarian organizations warned that this number of convoys was insufficient as they did not meet the minimum needs of the 2.3 million residents of the territory, which has been under a total blockade and Israeli bombing since October 7.
According to the international organization, a hundred trucks are needed every day to alleviate the severe humanitarian crisis there.
The Israeli press revealed that in return for his support for a military operation in Gaza, US President Joe Biden urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow food and medicine into the besieged area amid a wave of international criticism of the fence.
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