On Saturday, Hamas’ media office issued a statement saying that expected truckloads of aid ‘will not change the catastrophic medical conditions in Gaza’.
Trucks carrying humanitarian aid from Egypt into besieged and war-torn Gaza started passing through the Rafah border crossing on Saturday, a security source and an Egyptian Red Crescent official told AFP.
Earlier on Saturday, Egyptian state television showed several trucks entering the gate on the 15th day of the clash between Israel and Hamas, the militant movement that rules the Palestinian enclave of 2.4 million people, Hamas’s media office said.
The battle ignited after the Palestinian Hamas militants stormed into Israel from the Gaza Strip, taking more than 200 hostages and killing at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians who were shot, mutilated, or burnt to death, according to Israeli officials.
Israel has since pledged to destroy Hamas, and a bombing campaign launched in response has demolished entire city blocks in Gaza, so far killing 4,137 Palestinians, mostly civilians, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
