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North Sinai governor to UN chief: 7,000 Gaza aid trucks waiting; Israel holding up flow
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (C) walks on the tarmac flanked by the Egyptian Second Army in Sinai Chief Mohammad Abdel Rahman (L) and Egypt's Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar (R), upon landing at Egypt's el-Arish airport, near the Rafah border with the Gaza Strip on March 23, 2024. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)
North Sinai Governor Mohamed Shusha tells visiting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that some 7,000 trucks are waiting in North Sinai to deliver aid to Gaza, but that inspection procedures demanded by Israel had held up the flow of relief.
The comments come in a statement from Shusha’s office as the UN chief arrived in el-Arish in Egypt’s northern Sinai, where much of the international relief for Gaza is delivered and stockpiled.
Guterres is expected to visit Egypt’s border with Gaza later today to renew pleas for a ceasefire in the war that has been raging for over five months, sparked by Hamas’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel.
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