(UNRWA): 4,000 aid trucks ready to enter the Gaza Strip
The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, announced that the agency has 4,000 trucks loaded with aid, half of which carry food and flour, ready to enter the Gaza Strip.
Lazzarini said – according to what was reported. (UNRWA) on the “X” platform, today, Sunday – “Attacks on aid convoys in the Gaza Strip may decrease with the entry of Humanitarian relief after the ceasefire,” stressing the agency’s determination to continue working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank after an Israeli ban on its operations came into effect on January 30.
Lazzarini pointed out that UNRWA is the only body capable of To provide basic health care and education in the Gaza Strip.
For his part, the representative of the World Health Organization in the occupied Palestinian territories, Rick Pepperkorn, said, “The organization plans to introduce an unspecified number of Hospitals are ready to support the devastated health sector in Gaza during the next two months.”
On the other hand, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said, during a press conference, “The importance of releasing the Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip, despite risks, we decided that the goal of returning the hostages is important enough at this stage, and we will do our best in the future to protect our country and its citizens.”
Sa’ar added that the ceasefire had entered into force. Implementation, indicating that the exchange deal includes a heavy price that Israel will pay, which is the release of members of the Hamas movement from prison. He stressed Israel’s commitment to achieving the goals of the war on Gaza set by the security cabinet, which include returning all our hostages, dismantling the Hamas government and its military capabilities, and ensuring That the Gaza Strip will not pose a threat to the State of Israel and its citizens, as he put it.
It is noteworthy that it was announced on January 15, 2025 that a ceasefire agreement had been reached in the Strip. Gaza and the exchange of prisoners and detainees between Israel and the Hamas movement. The return to sustainable calm will be implemented in three stages: Mediated by Egypt, Qatar and the United States of America; The agreement will enter into force as of January 19, 2025.
During the first phase of the agreement, which lasts 42 days, since the entry into force of the agreement, the withdrawal and repositioning of Israeli forces outside densely populated areas, the exchange of prisoners and detainees, and the exchange of the remains of the deceased, will take place. The return of internally displaced persons to their places of residence in the Gaza Strip, and facilitating the departure of the sick and wounded to receive treatment. The first phase also includes intensifying The safe and effective introduction and distribution of humanitarian aid on a large scale throughout the Gaza Strip, the rehabilitation of hospitals, health centers and bakeries, the introduction of civil defense supplies and fuel, and the introduction of shelter supplies for displaced people who lost their homes due to the war.
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