Arab leaders urge a boost in humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip during a conference to discuss such assistance in Sweimeh on the coast of the Dead Sea in Jordan.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi calls on nations to force Israel to stop using hunger as a weapon and remove obstacles to the distribution of humanitarian aid in the Strip.
Jordan’s King Abdullah says that humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip cannot wait for a ceasefire and cannot be subject to a political agenda, Jordan’s King Abdullah says.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says it is the responsibility of the United Nations Security Council and the international community to press Israel to open all land crossings into the Gaza Strip.
“The responsibility of the Security Council and all parties of the international community remains great in putting pressure on Israel in order to open all land crossings into the Gaza Strip and hand them over to the new government to let all relief and medical supplies in,” he says during the conference.
Israel was not invited to the Gaza aid conference, a Foreign Ministry official told The Times of Israel yesterday.
Israel maintains that it has worked to boost aid entering Gaza by opening several new crossing points as well as cooperating with the construction of the US-built Gaza aid pier. COGAT said that 197 aid trucks were transferred to Gaza yesterday via Egypt, the Ashdod port and Israel. The Defense Ministry body claimed that the contents of 1,000 trucks are waiting on the Gazan side of the Kerem Shalom crossing point to be picked up and distributed by UN aid agencies.
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