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Original Title: Biden says aid could enter Gaza on Friday, as Israel and Egypt give go-ahead. Twenty trucks are preparing to enter Gaza through the Rafah crossing, but US president says aid will halt if it is seized by Hamas
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Trucks carrying humanitarian aid will enter Gaza from Egypt’s Sinai peninsula in the coming days, according to the White House, after Joe Biden’s whirlwind visit to Israel that followed a deadly blast at a hospital in the besieged territory.
Talking to reporters onboard Air Force One, Biden made it clear he believed the main achievement of the trip was to persuade Israel’s war cabinet to give a green light – with caveats – to humanitarian relief deliveries across the Egypt-Gaza border.
Biden told reporters he had also spoken to the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, who had agreed to reopen the Rafah crossing to allow 20 trucks with humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.
Griffiths told the security council: “There is simply nowhere to go for civilians to escape the destruction and privation, both of which grow by the hour as missiles continue to fly and essential supplies, including fuel, food, medical items, water, run low.
The Biden administration fears a large-scale ground assault would lead to further mass civilian casualties, possibly trigger a major cross-border offensive from the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, and fall short of Israeli war aims of eliminating Hamas.
The explosion at the hospital and its heavy death toll led to the cancellation of what was supposed to be the second leg of Biden’s Middle East peace mission, a meeting in Amman with Sisi, Jordan’s King Abdullah and the head of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, Mahmoud Abbas.
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