Qatar demands immediate entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza

Doha: 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. 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, compared to the number of trucks that crossed the crossing before the Israeli aggression on the Strip on October 7, which reached an average of between 400 and 500 trucks per day, Lulwa bint Rashid Al Khater, Qatar's Minister of State for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in statements 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 the Israeli entity puts in place to deliver aid to inside Gaza, and thus it flagrantly violates Article 59 of the Fourth Geneva Conve ntion, where the occupying power is responsible in this case, to ensure access to adequate levels of supplies and aid. Regarding the content of these aids, including food, medical supplies, and other materials, the Qatari minister said that "the aid varies between the essential needs of the Palestinian people and aid that can be dispensed with in the current phase, which is what we are striving for at present, as we are keen on the arrival of urgent and necessary aid to the Palestinian people, especially medical and food. Al Khater explained that Qatar is constantly reviewing the essential and actual needs of the Palestinians so that it can bring in the aid that the Palestinian people in Gaza actually need. Source: Jordan News Agency