Israel-Hamas war: Supplies arrive in Gaza via new pier but land routes essential

aid chief said the new sea corridor could not be a substitute for land crossings, and warned that deliveries of food and fuel

The head of the US Agency for International Development , Samantha Power, said the US would use the sea route to deliver “metric tons of life-saving aid, including nutrient rich food to support thousands of Gaza’s most vulnerable children and adults; and critical supplies such as plastic sheeting for shelter, jerry cans to hold clean water, and hygiene kits”.

Although the Israel Defense Forces have yet to launch an attack on the centre of Rafah, the UN said on Friday that nearly 640,000 people had been displaced from the city, many of them going north to Deir al-Balah, where, it said, conditions were “dire”. “Tanks and planes are wiping out residential districts and markets, shops, restaurants, everything. It is all happening before the one-eyed world,” Ayman Rajab from western Jabilia was quoted as saying by Reuters.

Meanwhile, Mr Kirby said that 17 doctors with US citizenship who had been trapped in Gaza were able to leave on Friday. Twenty doctors were initially reported to be stuck inside the coastal strip.

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