According to the organization, it is the second shipment of hundreds of tons of food that, for the second consecutive day, enters the corridor leading to Kerem Shalom from Egyptian territory, where they are inspected by Israel before entering the Palestinian enclave.
On Sunday, Egypt sent 125 trucks loaded with food and medical supplies, as well as fuel, to Gaza through this same point, for the first time since, 20 days ago, Israel seized the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, in the south of Egypt. enclave that borders the Sinai Peninsula.
Since then, hundreds of humanitarian aid trucks, mostly loaded with food, have been stranded in Egypt and unable to enter the Gaza Strip.
Many of them began to rot in the high temperatures, while some products had to be sold at reduced prices in local markets before spoiling.
The entry of this new aid convoy comes on the same day that the Egyptian army confirmed the death of a person in an exchange of fire with Israeli forces at the Rafah border post, an unusual incident that authorities in both countries say they are investigating.
More serious was the air attack carried out by Israel on Sunday against a camp for displaced people in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, widely condemned by the international community and in which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted that it was "an incident tragic".
"In Rafah, we evacuated a million inhabitants who were not involved and, despite all our efforts, yesterday [Sunday] a tragic incident occurred. We are investigating what happened and we will draw conclusions," Netanyahu told the Israeli parliament.
On Sunday, an Israeli air strike caused a fire in a camp for displaced people in the south of the Gaza Strip, causing, according to Palestinian authorities, at least around 50 deaths - nearly half of whom were women, children and the elderly - and 249 injured. .
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