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Israeli airstrikes continued to pound the Gaza Strip while the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) kept firing rockets at Israel on Saturday, the 15th day of the conflict.
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On the day, 20 trucks loaded with humanitarian aid entered Gaza through the Rafah crossing, the only border crossing between the besieged coastal enclave and Egypt, after a two-week blockade.
The trucks were loaded with medical aid donated by Egypt’s institutions of the National Alliance for Civil Development Work and the Egyptian Red Crescent, said Aya Ahmed, public relations officer of Life Makers Foundation.
“Such a limited convoy will not be able to change the humanitarian catastrophe that the Gaza Strip is experiencing,” said Salama Maarouf, head of the Hamas-run government media office in Gaza.
Why is Israel ���� burning down Palestinian homes in the West Bank? There is no Hamas there.
Because this is NOT a war on Gaza, it’s a war on Palestine ���� pic.twitter.com/OlT5D5SoXv
— Danny Haiphong (@SpiritofHo)
October 22, 2023
It is important to establish a safe corridor that works around the clock to provide humanitarian aid and allow the wounded to receive appropriate medical care that is lacking in Gaza, he added.
On Saturday, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune directed the government to send urgent supplies, including food, medicines, tents, and clothes to Gaza, to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinians in the strip.
The Cairo Peace Summit was held on the day at Egypt’s new administrative capital east of Cairo, where heads of state and ministers from over 30 countries, as well as leaders of regional and international organizations, urged to de-escalate the conflict in Gaza, pursue a cease-fire, and seek a resolution to the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict via a “two-state solution.”
Meanwhile, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that the military is “continuing to prepare for the next stage of the war, including ground operations.”
This boy is the only survivor of the Jouda family in Gaza. The family, including the father, mother and children were brutally massacred by Israel last night for no reason other than being Palestinian.#GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/hvVJ4lrATI
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen)
October 22, 2023
Over 300,000 reserve soldiers have been drafted, many of whom are assumed to be preparing for an Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visited Israel’s northern border where skirmishes between the IDF and the Lebanese-based Shiite military group Hezbollah have been on the up-tick since the conflict began. Several anti-tank missiles were fired toward Israel on Saturday. The IDF responded with artillery fire.
Since Oct. 7, at least 4,385 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza and about 13,560 have been injured, while the IDF continued to warn residents of Gaza City to evacuate to the south of the Gaza Strip on Saturday.
About 1.6 million people, at least 60 percent of the Gazan population, have been displaced as a result of the ongoing Israeli attacks.
Israel’s bombings and attacks on the Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have left more than 3,850 people dead and some 13,500 wounded. pic.twitter.com/xqHZdez186
— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish)
October 20, 2023
