Israel opens the Kerem Shalom crossing and is working to help humanitarian aid pass into Gaza, the IDF says.
Eight trucks filled with medical supplies, four sent by the Palestinian Authority, two by the UN children’s agency UNICEF, and two more by the IDF, pass into the Strip.
The supplies in the IDF’s two trucks include 14,000 saline packets, 20 examination beds, 25 IV hangers, 12,500 bandages, pediatric kits, and other basic medical supplies.
The supplies come as the Strip’s hospitals are overwhelmed by thousands of Palestinians wounded in clashes with IDF troops along the Gaza border on Monday.
Israel is also set to transfer large quantities of gasoline through the crossing, the army says.
“The aid that is being sent in by the [army’s] Technology and Logistics Directorate is part of a policy that distinguishes between the perpetrators of terrorism and the innocent population in the Gaza Strip,” the army says.
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