National television stations showed 17 trucks, three of them from the Egyptian Crescent, entering the besieged enclave from this country through the Rafah border crossing.

For the first time since the beginning of the new cycle of violence, on October 7, yesterday morning a caravan of 20 vehicles crossed with water, medicine and food.

The UN warned that a minimum of 100 daily trucks are needed to satisfy the basic needs of the inhabitants of that territory, subject to a total Israeli blockade for 16 days.

I am confident this delivery will be the beginning of a sustainable effort to provide essential supplies, said the United Nations Assistant Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, the day before.

The Israeli press revealed that, in exchange for his support for a military operation in Gaza, Biden urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow food and medicines into the besieged territory, due to the wave of international criticism over the siege.

During a visit to Rafah on Friday, UN Secretary General António Guterres stated that the arrival in that territory of the shipments gathered over several days represents “the difference between death and life.”

Last week, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry considered attempts to misrepresent Cairo’s position on the status of the crossing unacceptable.

We never closed the site, but it is not operating normally due to four Israeli bombings, he noted.

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