Humanitarian assist started flowing from Israel to Gaza Saturday morning as Israel’s cease-fire with Hamas appeared to carry.
Convoys carrying gas, meals and medication to the battered area started after 11 days of battle, the Instances of Israel reported. Israel opened each the Erez and Kerem Shalom border crossings to permit the help to get by.
An effort to ship help by these crossings earlier within the week, earlier than the cease-fire, was met with rocket fireplace from Hamas.
The UN’s Central Emergency Response Fund launched $18.5 million for humanitarian efforts, and a number of other nations additionally pledged assist, in accordance with the paper.
Gaza well being officers say a minimum of 240 folks have been killed after Israeli airstrikes, NPR reported. A whole bunch of properties and companies have been broken or destroyed. Twelve folks died in Israel from greater than 4,000 rockets fired by Hamas militants, Israeli officers stated.
Whereas the navy motion was on maintain, Jerusalem noticed some violence on Friday when Israeli police cracked down on protesters on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the place the more moderen spherical of battle started two weeks earlier. Protesters who marched by the neighborhood and threw stones and fireworks have been met with tear gasoline and rubber bullets, in accordance with the Jerusalem Publish. There have been additionally clashes at that website, recognized to Jews as the Temple Mount, earlier Friday.
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