Jordan announced on Thursday that it had sent 120 relief aid trucks to the Gaza Strip this week, bringing the total it has sent since December to 2,897 trucks. Since October 7, Israel, with American support, has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, leaving more than 130,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, amid massive destruction and deadly famine in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
The Hashemite Charity Organization (official) said in a statement received by Anadolu Agency: “120 trucks of humanitarian aid crossed for our people in Gaza this week, and they will be distributed through partner associations and organizations in the sector.”She explained that the trucks “carry ready-to-eat meals, food parcels, flour, clothes, blankets, (…) and rice.”
According to the statement, the aid was provided by the Jordanian Armed Forces and the Jordanian Charitable Organization in cooperation with the World Food Program and with the support of local and foreign associations. The Authority pointed out that “the total number of (Jordanian) land trucks that have entered the Gaza Strip to date has risen to 2,897 trucks.”
The statement did not mention the crossing through which these trucks entered, while Israel continues to close the Rafah border crossing with Egypt and the Kerem Shalom crossing. Tel Aviv usually announces the entry of trucks coming from Jordan into Gaza through the Kerem Shalom and Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossings.
For 18 years, Israel has been besieging the Gaza Strip, and its war has forced about two million of its population, numbering about 2.3 million Palestinians, to flee in catastrophic conditions, with a severe and deliberate shortage of food, water and medicine. In contempt of the international community, Tel Aviv continues the war, ignoring the UN Security Council resolutions calling for an immediate halt to it and the International Court of Justice’s orders to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Israel has further defied the request of International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor Karim Khan to issue arrest warrants for its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant in connection with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
