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The Egyptian government agreed on Thursday to open the Rafah crossing into Gaza for humanitarian aid convoys, although Egypt still refuses to accept any Palestinian refugees from Gaza.Sisi agreed to allow trucks loaded with humanitarian supplies to cross from Egypt into Gaza, beginning as early as Friday.
Until now, Egyptian officials had bizarrely insisted the crossing was “open” even though no one was actually allowed to pass through it. Egyptian officials, including Sisi, claimed the border had to be tightly restricted because Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing made the area dangerous.
Aid convoy trucks wait at the Rafah border crossing for clearance to enter Gaza on October 19, 2023, in North Sinai, Egypt. “We’re negotiating with the parties to make sure that we can get humanitarian goods going in and right now we’re in the process of those negotiations. We’re trying to get them in as soon as can,” a United Nations spokesman
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