Egypt said it would open its Rafah borders with Gaza to allow humanitarian aid into the region, as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect on Sunday.
The Rafah crossing is Gaza’s main gateway to the outside world and has been closed since Israel’s army took over Palestine in May.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said Cairo was working to “mobilize the biggest amount of aid into the Gaza Strip,” Africa News reported.
“We have agreed on allowing 600 trucks daily inside the Strip, including 50 fuel trucks. And we hope that 300 trucks go to the north, because the situation is worse and more disastrous there than the rest of the enclave,” he said.
An Israeli military delegation and its internal security agency, Shin Bet, traveled to Cairo on Friday to discuss reopening the border, according to Egyptian and Israeli officials.
Since Friday, hundreds of vehicles delivering medicine, food, and water have been parked in a line on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing.