Rafah border crossing opens, allowing aid trucks into Gaza

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Trucks with humanitarian aid that have been stranded in Egypt entered the Rafah border crossing with the besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday
after days of diplomatic wrangling over conditions for delivering the relief.Television images showed trucks moving into the border crossing
area from the Egyptian side
million residents.Israel imposed a total blockade and launched air strikes on Gaza in response to a deadly attack on Israeli soil by
Palestinian group Hamas on Oct
7.Hamas, which has controlled Gaza since 2007, said a relief aid convoy of 20 trucks would enter on Saturday, carrying medicine, medical
supplies and a limited amount of food and canned goods.The U.N
generators running have reached dangerously low levels.U.N
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited the border on Friday in a push to get the aid in, saying a mechanism for inspection of the aid
the north.Source: Reuters
 -Agencies