US President Joe Biden assured this Wednesday that Israel agreed to the flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. something that has hitherto been opposed as retaliation for the brutal Hamas attack on October 7 that started the current war.

“Israel has agreed that humanitarian aid can begin flowing from Egypt to the Gaza Strip,” Biden said in a statement following the final part of his visit to Israel.

More than a hundred containers with humanitarian aid are waitingThe Rafah checkpoint is the only one in the Gaza Strip not controlled by Israel and connecting it with the Egyptian Sinai– for the Israeli government to give its consent to enter the punished enclave.

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“We are working closely with the Egyptian government, the United Nations and its agencies such as the World Food Program, and other partners in the region to get trucks across the border as quickly as possible,” Biden said.

The President also announced $100 million relief fund in humanitarian assistance to Gaza and the occupied West Bank, supporting more than a million people displaced by the conflict.

The people of Gaza need food, water, medicine and shelter, Biden admitted

After Biden’s statements, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clarified that “Israel will not interfere with humanitarian aid from Egyptfor now it is only food, water and medicine for the civilian population located in the southern Gaza Strip.”

“Until these supplies reach Hamas. They will not be allowed to reach Hamas“Says a statement released by the Prime Minister’s Office after a meeting of his War Cabinet, which also met with Biden hours earlier.

After eleven days of direct opposition to the flow of basic humanitarian aid from Egypt, Israel today made this concession “in light of widespread and vital American support for the war effort and at the request of the President.”

However, the Israeli military cabinet clarified that it “will not allow it.” no humanitarian aid from its territory to the Gaza Strip until the prisoners are returned.”

“Israel demands Red Cross visits to our captives and is working to mobilize broad international support for this demand,” the statement said.

Hundreds of thousands of Gazans have been evacuated to the southern Gaza Strip, where drinking water and food are scarce due to intense Israeli bombing after twelve days of war that killed more than 3,400 people in the enclave and injured at least 11,000.

The brutal October 7 Hamas attack on Israel that started the war. This resulted in the death of approximately 1,400 people on the Israeli side.

Israel’s position changed after a deadly attack on a Christian church in Gaza that left 471 people dead and more than a thousand injured, bombing, the authorship of which is disputed, as while Palestinian authorities blame Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, the Israeli government blames Palestinian jihad for the missile launch due to the alleged failure of its missiles.

(According to EFE)