Around 20 trucks carrying aid began crossing the Rafah border point on Saturday morning, Egyptian TV reported
Israel-Hamas war: Empty trucks wait on the Gaza border with Egypt at Rafah. Aid trucks began crossing over at Rafah on Saturday morning. Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty ImagesHamas’s media office issued a statement on Saturday saying that expected truckloads of aid “will not change the catastrophic medical conditions in Gaza”.
The opening of Rafah, the only non-Israeli border crossing that Gaza has, has been complicated by the need for Egypt, Israel and Hamas to all agree for it to happen. Egypt and Israel have blamed each other and Hamas for Rafah staying shut until now.
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