"Pilot project"

Aid convoy reaches Gaza via new military road

Under no circumstances should the relief supplies fall into the hands of the Islamist Hamas.(Bild: KameraOne)

An aid convoy carrying food has reached the north of the embattled Gaza Strip via a new Israeli military road.

After an inspection at the Israeli border crossing Kerem Shalom, six trucks brought aid supplies from the World Food Program (WFP) from the so-called 96th gate near Kibbutz Beeri across the border into the northern Gaza Strip.

It was a pilot project to prevent the aid from falling into the hands of the Islamist Hamas. The gravel road used by the convoy on the instructions of the Israeli government divides the sealed-off coastal strip south of the city of Gaza along an east-west corridor that has been occupied by Israeli troops since the start of the war against Hamas a good five months ago.

Under no circumstances should the relief supplies fall into the hands of the Islamist Hamas.(Bild: KameraOne)

People on the brinkof famine
The first successful convoy to the north since February 20 has delivered food for 25,000 people to the city of Gaza. The people in the north are on the brink of famine.

The United Nations is urging that aid deliveries by truck be expanded and that the transportation of goods also be permitted via border crossings to the particularly affected north of the coastal region.