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Tuesday, October 21, 2025
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Tuesday, October 21, 2025
World Food Programme calls on Israel to open north Gaza crossing to get more aid into Strip
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A truck loaded with humanitarian aid waits to cross from the Egyptian side of Rafah en route to the Kerem Shalom crossing into the Gaza Strip on October 20, 2025 (AFP)
A World Food Programme spokesperson says that the entry of supplies into Gaza are ramping up but were still far short of its daily target of 2,000 tons because only two crossings into the enclave are open.
“To be able to get to this scale-up, we have to use every border crossing point right now,” World Food Programme spokesperson Abeer Etefa tells a Geneva press briefing.
She adds that only two crossings were operational — Kerem Shalom and Kissufim — but that none were open into the famine-hit north.
There is no comment from COGAT, the Israeli Defense Ministry body that oversees civil affairs in the Palestinian territories.
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