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Trucks filled with medicine provided by the UN entered for the first time on Saturday morning through the Erez-Beit Hanoun crossing point, according to images. The vehicles were then supposed to reach two hospitals located in the northern part of Gaza.
Israel made the decision on Friday to temporarily open this border crossing located north of the Gaza Strip following increased pressure from the international community, mainly the United States.
In his first call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Joe Biden expressed his anger, urging Israel to do more to protect humanitarian staff and civilians. This came after Israel's airstrike, which killed employees of the US-based World Central Kitchen group, on Monday, April 1st.
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In this part of the Palestinian enclave, the humanitarian situation is disastrous. Few convoys have reached this area in recent weeks due to the destruction and obstacles along the route from the south, as well as the restrictions regularly imposed by Israeli authorities on convoy passages.
Impatience had been growing for weeks in the face of the ongoing humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip, reaching its peak with the death of the seven aid workers in the Israeli airstrike.
The Israeli state acknowledged "serious errors" that led to the bombing of a van belonging to the US-based NGO .
President Joe Biden had mentioned for the first time on Thursday the possibility of conditioning US aid to Israel on "tangible" measures aimed at improving the situation, a change in rhetoric that appears to have slightly shifted the dynamics.
Israel made the decision on Friday to temporarily open this border crossing located north of the Gaza Strip following increased pressure from the international community, mainly the United States.
In his first call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Joe Biden expressed his anger, urging Israel to do more to protect humanitarian staff and civilians. This came after Israel's airstrike, which killed employees of the US-based World Central Kitchen group, on Monday, April 1st.
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In this part of the Palestinian enclave, the humanitarian situation is disastrous. Few convoys have reached this area in recent weeks due to the destruction and obstacles along the route from the south, as well as the restrictions regularly imposed by Israeli authorities on convoy passages.
Impatience had been growing for weeks in the face of the ongoing humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip, reaching its peak with the death of the seven aid workers in the Israeli airstrike.
The Israeli state acknowledged "serious errors" that led to the bombing of a van belonging to the US-based NGO .
President Joe Biden had mentioned for the first time on Thursday the possibility of conditioning US aid to Israel on "tangible" measures aimed at improving the situation, a change in rhetoric that appears to have slightly shifted the dynamics.
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