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Israel will allow “temporary” aid deliveries via its border with the northern Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced Friday, hours after a warning from US President Joe Biden. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments on Israel’s war on Hamas.
Issued on: 05/04/2024 – 03:04
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Humanitarian aid falls through the sky towards the Gaza Strip after being dropped from an aircraft, April 4, 2024.
Humanitarian aid falls through the sky towards the Gaza Strip after being dropped from an aircraft, April 4, 2024. © Hannah McKay, Reuters
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Israel will allow “temporary” aid deliveries via its border with the northern Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu’s office announced Friday, reopening the Erez crossing into the famine-threatened territory for the first time since the October 7 attacks that sparked the war.
The United States’s support for Israel’s defence remains “ironclad” despite President Joe Biden warning that Washington’s policy on the Gaza war depends on protecting civilians, the White House said Thursday.
US CIA Director Bill Burns is expected to travel to Cairo this weekend to meet with his Egyptian and Israeli counterparts and the Qatari prime minister to try to reach a breakthrough in talks on releasing hostages held in Gaza by Hamas.
The United Nations says the Israel-Hamas war has left almost 200 aid workers dead, including more than 175 members of the UN’s staff.
At least 33,037 Palestinians have been killed and 75,668 wounded since Israel began its offensive on Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave. Around 1,140 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.
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Israel says will allow ‘temporary’ aid through northern Gaza border
Israel will allow “temporary” aid deliveries via its border with the northern Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced Friday, hours after a warning from US President Joe Biden.
“Israel will allow the temporary delivery of humanitarian aid through Ashdod and the Erez checkpoint,” the statement from the prime minister’s office said, referring to a port about 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Gaza and a land crossing.
“This increased aid will prevent a humanitarian crisis and is necessary to ensure the continuation of the fighting and to achieve the goals of the war,” it added.
The announcement comes as international pressure mounts on Israel after it took responsibility for a strike that killed seven employees of US-based charity World Central Kitchen.
In a tense, 30-minute call with Netanyahu on Thursday, Biden described the Israeli strike as “unacceptable and called for an “immediate ceasefire”.
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Yesterday’s key developments:
US President Joe Biden told Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in a telephone call on Thursday to reach an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza, the White House said in a statement.
More than 600 British jurists, including three retired judges from the UK Supreme Court, called on the government on Thursday to suspend arms sales to Israel.
A Hamas official said Thursday there has been no progress in Gaza ceasefire talks despite the movement showing flexibility.
Celebrity chef and founder of the World Central Kitchen charity group Jose Andres told Reuters Thursday that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his aid workers in Gaza had targeted them “systematically, car by car”.
About casualty figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry:
Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent.
The health ministry does not report how Palestinians were killed, whether from Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages or errant Palestinian rocket fire. It describes all casualties as victims of “Israeli aggression”.
The ministry also does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
Throughout four wars and numerous skirmishes between Israel and Hamas, UN agencies have cited the Hamas-run health ministry’s death tolls in regular reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Palestinian Red Crescent also use the numbers.
In the aftermath of war, the UN humanitarian office has published final death tolls based on its own research into medical records. The UN’s counts have largely been consistent with the Gaza health ministry’s, with small discrepancies.
For more on the Gaza health ministry’s tolls, click here.
(FRANCE 24 with AP)
For more on the Gaza health ministry’s tolls, click here.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP & Reuters)
