The first humanitarian trucks arrived in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. Many of them belong to UN agencies and are crossing the border crossing that Israel has opened. The ceasefire is still being observed, which came into force on Friday morning after 11 days of fighting between Palestinian Hamas and Israel.
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More than 250 people, mostly Palestinians, did not survive the fight. About 100,000 fled their homes. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), up to 800,000 of the two million inhabitants of the Zone do not have access to drinking water from the water main.
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Convoys of trucks of food, fuel, medicine and medical supplies flow into Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing. World Health Organization (WHO) spokeswoman Margaret Harris said medical facilities in Gaza were overwhelmed by the treatment of more than 1,900 wounded.
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UN agencies, including the Palestinian Refugee Assistance (UNWRA), have pointed out that people who have left home should be helped first. It takes $ 38 million (794 million crowns). According to the agency, most Palestinians who fled the bombing are already returning home.
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According to the Gaza Ministry of Housing, many residential houses were damaged in the bombing and 1,800 flats are uninhabitable. Samira Abdallah Nasser said that a two-storey house where her family lived was also hit during the Israeli raid. “We’re back, but we have nowhere to sit, there is no water, no electricity, no beds, nothing. We have returned to completely destroyed houses, “Reuters quoted her as saying. Rescuers are trying to search the wreckage for potential survivors.
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Mona Amin from Bayt Lahiya, northern Gaza, was at home when an Israeli rocket landed on the building where she and her family lived. “I slept,” he says quietly to the British newspaper The Guardian a forty-seven-year-old woman covered in bandages who could barely move her lips and eyes. The blast killed her husband and three children. The eldest daughter was 25 years old and she was pregnant, her two siblings were 19 and 22 years old.
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After many days, Israelis in the communities in the south, which were most threatened by Palestinian fire, could also come out of the shelters on Friday. Nevertheless, many of them are convinced that the fighting should continue. Dan Kiri of Ashdod said the fight should be done until Hamas was completely destroyed. “It’s only a matter of time before the next operation against Gaza begins,” he said.
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However, the Israeli side did not record as many casualties as the Palestinian. A total of 13 Israelis out of approximately 250 victims of the armed conflict did not survive the fight.
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The fighting began on May 10 after riots in Jerusalem. Hamas fired more than 4,000 rockets at Israel, and Israelis say they have destroyed much of the radical organization’s infrastructure, including hundreds of kilometers of tunnels. The ceasefire was credited to negotiators from the United States and Egypt, who sent two delegations to monitor the ceasefire. US President Joe Biden has said he wants to help organize the reconstruction of Gaza. According to him, the only option for Israelis and Palestinians is a two-state solution to their dispute, ie the creation of Palestine alongside Israel. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is going to the area.
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