Gaza humanitarian aid blocked

UAE volunteers prepare humanitarian aid shipments to the Gaza Strip, Dubai.On October 21, the Egyptian government briefly opened the Rafah crossing to the Gaza Strip, and a total of 20 trucks carrying international humanitarian aid completed their deliveries. This is the first batch of humanitarian supplies to arrive in Gaza so far in this Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including 60 tons of food, 44,000 bottles of drinking water and medical supplies. The United Nations has warned that more than 1.6 million people in the Gaza Strip are in need of emergency assistance and that the first shipment is far from enough to meet the demand, and has called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure. At least 4,385 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip in the current round of Israeli air strikes, more than 60 percent of them women and children.