DUBAI: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi accused Israel on Wednesday of holding up aid deliveries for Gaza at the Rafah border crossing.
“This is a form of pressure on the Gaza Strip and its people over the conflict and the release of hostages. They are using this as a pressure tool on the people of the Strip,” El-Sisi told a gathering of military officers and state officials.
“We used to send Gaza 600 trucks a day. But for the past two to three days, we are not delivering more than 200 to 220 trucks (of aid) per day. How are these people (in Gaza) living?” he said.
“Egypt’s Rafah crossing is open 24/7 every day of the month. But the procedures taking place on the Israeli side for us to send in the aid without it being blocked by anyone, they are the reason (for holdups).”
Israel’s air and ground war in Gaza following a surprise cross-border assault by Hamas militants has caused a severe humanitarian crisis, with most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people left homeless and acutely short of food, water, medicine and fuel.
Israel has previously denied holding up aid to Gaza via the Rafah crossing.
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Egypt’s El-Sisi accuses Israel of impeding aid deliveries to Gaza
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Egypt’s El-Sisi accuses Israel of impeding aid deliveries to Gaza
- Abdel Fattah El-Sisi: ‘We used to send Gaza 600 trucks a day. But for the past two to three days, we are not delivering more than 200 to 220 trucks (of aid) per day’
- El-Sisi: ‘The procedures taking place on the Israeli side for us to send in the aid without it being blocked by anyone, they are the reason (for holdups)’
UN coordinator for Lebanon calls for talks with Israel
- Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert: ‘As bad as things are today, they are set to get even worse’
- Lebanon was engulfed by the expanding Middle East war on Monday, after Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel
LEBANON: The United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon on Saturday urged Lebanon and Israel to enter talks to negotiate an end hostilities after the outbreak of a renewed Israel-Hezbollah war.
“As bad as things are today, they are set to get even worse,” Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert said.
“Talks between Lebanon and Israel can be the game changer needed to save future generations from going, time and again, through the same nightmare.”
In December, Lebanese and Israeli civilian representatives engaged in their first direct talks in decades as part of a meeting of a committee monitoring the November 2024 ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
Lebanon was engulfed by the expanding Middle East war on Monday, after Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel to avenge the death of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli attacks on Iran.
“As bad as things are today, they are set to get even worse,” Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert said.
“Talks between Lebanon and Israel can be the game changer needed to save future generations from going, time and again, through the same nightmare.”
In December, Lebanese and Israeli civilian representatives engaged in their first direct talks in decades as part of a meeting of a committee monitoring the November 2024 ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
Lebanon was engulfed by the expanding Middle East war on Monday, after Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel to avenge the death of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli attacks on Iran.
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