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US says Egypt border crossing to Gaza to reopen
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CAIRO, Oct 15 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that the Egyptian-controlled border crossing into Gaza would reopen and the U.S. was working with Egypt, Israel and the United Nations to get assistance through it.
Hundreds of tonnes of aid from several countries have been waiting in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula for days pending a deal for its safe delivery to Gaza and the evacuation of some foreign passport holders through the Rafah crossing.
“We are putting into place — with the United Nations, with Egypt, with Israel, with others — the mechanism by which to get the assistance in and to get it to the people who need it,” he added.
Sisi told Blinken, who is on a Mideast tour, that Israel had responded disproportionately by launching its heaviest ever strikes in retaliation for a devastating incursion by Hamas on Oct. 7.
“The reaction went beyond the right to self-defence, turning into collective punishment for 2.3 million people in Gaza,” Sisi said in a joint appearance.
Eight planes laden with aid from Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Tunisia, and the World Health Organization have landed in Sinai’s Al Arish airport in recent days and a convoy of more than 100 trucks is waiting in the city for permission to enter Gaza, according to the Egyptian Red Crescent.
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