Israel announced it had "temporarily" approved the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip through one of its checkpoints to ease congestion at the Rafah checkpoint between the Palestinian territory and Egypt, AFP reported.
"The cabinet temporarily approved the unloading of trucks from the Gaza side at the Kerem Shalom crossing instead of returning them to Rafah," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement. The cabinet decision specified that only humanitarian aid from Egypt would be delivered to Gaza in this way. /BGNES
