Shousha made these statements while inspecting a convoy financed by the Protectors of the Nation party, which includes dozens of tons of food and relief materials for Gaza, the electronic version of Al Ahram newspaper reported.

The newspaper detailed that the National Alliance for Civil Development Work mobilized this week a caravan of 106 vehicles with 40 thousand blankets, 50 thousand clothes and 300 thousand boxes of medicines, with a total weight of one thousand tons.

For his part, Ahmed El-Tayyeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar (the most prestigious university in Sunni Islam) launched the “Save Gaza” campaign.

Last week, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates announced the designation of El-Arish airport, in the northeastern Sinai Peninsula, as an international aid center for the neighboring Strip, where 2,750 Palestinians have been killed in the attacks to date.

The Foreign Ministry called on the international community to send to that terminal the shipments of basic necessities, to be transported by land through the Rafah border crossing, located a few dozen kilometers away.

Since then, numerous planes have landed there with cargoes from Türkiye, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Tunisia, as well as from the World Health Organization.

An international news agency announced yesterday a temporary cease-fire to allow the reopening of the crossing, but the Office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied such an agreement.

“At the moment there is no cease-fire for humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip and the exit of foreigners” a terse statement noted.

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