DOHA, Jan 29 — Qatar has called for the immediate and unimpeded entry of humanitarian aid to all parts of the Gaza Strip, with the guarantee of adequate levels of supplies, reported Jordan News Agency (Petra).
The number of trucks crossing into the Gaza Strip at present sometimes reaches less than 100 trucks per day, which is a very limited number compared to the size of the Strip’s needs for supplies and urgent aid.
This is compared to the number of trucks that crossed the crossing before the Israeli aggression on the Strip since October last year, which reached an average of between 400 and 500 trucks per day, Lulwa Rashid Al Khater, Qatar’s Minister of State for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in statement on Sunday.
Al Khater added that the arrival of aid to the Egyptian city of El Arish is the easiest step in terms of the movement of aid from the world to Gaza. But there are many obstacles that Israel has put in place which violates Article 59 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Regarding the content of the aid, which includes food, medical supplies and other materials, the Qatari minister said they vary between the essential needs of the Palestinian people and aid that can be dispensed with in the current phase.
“What we are striving for at present is the arrival of urgent and necessary aid to the Palestinian people, especially medicines and food.”
— Bernama
