First aid delivery due in Gaza in ‘the next day or so’: UN

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The first aid delivery into the besieged Gaza Strip via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt should take place “in the next day or so”, AFP quotes the United Nations as saying.

“We are in deep and advanced negotiations with all relevant sides to ensure that an aid operation in Gaza starts as quickly as possible… a first delivery is due to start in the next day or so,” the UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said, his spokesman tells reporters in Geneva.

 Staff members unload aid for the Palestinian Gaza Strip transported on an Emirates cargo plane on the tarmac of Egypt’s el-Arish airport in the north Sinai Peninsula on October 19. — AFP
Staff members unload aid for the Palestinian Gaza Strip transported on an Emirates cargo plane on the tarmac of Egypt’s el-Arish airport in the north Sinai Peninsula on October 19. — AFP

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