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05/21/2025May 21, 2025
UAE says deal reached with Israel to allow aid delivery to Gaza
The announced that it has reached an agreement with Israel to deliver “urgent humanitarian aid” to the besieged .
According to the statement from the official news agency WAM, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, the UAE’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, “held a phone call with Gideon Saar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel, which led to an agreement to allow the delivery of urgent humanitarian aid from the United Arab Emirates.”
“The aid will address the food needs of approximately 15,000 civilians in the Gaza Strip in the initial phase,” it said.
It was not immediately clear when the UAE’s aid would be sent to Gaza or when it would be distributed.
On Tuesday, Israel said 93 aid trucks had entered Gaza from Israel, but the United Nations said the aid had been held up.
Israel is under intense global pressure to end its military operations in Gaza and allow aid into the region.
Humanitarian organizations have reported critical shortages of food and medical supplies as a result of the blockade.
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05/21/2025May 21, 2025
MSF says Israel is allowing ‘ridiculously inadequate’ aid supply into Gaza
The Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres or MSF) aid group said that the amount of aid has started to allow into the war-ravaged is not nearly enough and is “a smokescreen to pretend the siege is over.”
“The Israeli authorities’ decision to allow a ridiculously inadequate amount of aid into Gaza after months of an air-tight siege signals their intention to avoid the accusation of starving people in Gaza, while in fact keeping them barely surviving,” said Pascale Coissard, MSF emergency coordinator in Gaza’s Khan Younis.
“This plan is a way to instrumentalise aid, making it a tool to further Israeli forces’ military objectives,” she added.
According to the UN, 500 aid trucks entered Gaza every day before October 2023. MSF stated that the current authorization for 100 trucks per day is woefully inadequate given the dire situation.
“Meanwhile, evacuation orders are continuing to uproot the population, while Israeli forces are still subjecting health facilities to intensive attacks,” MSF said.
On Tuesday, UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said that the nine trucks cleared to enter on Monday were “a drop in the ocean of what is urgently needed.”
In an interview with the BBC, he said that 14,000 babies could die within the next 48 hours if aid does not reach them in time.
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is facing mounting criticism from several of its allies regarding its handling of aid to the war-torn , where a potential famine is looming.
Meanwhile, media reports suggest that new intelligence obtained by the United States indicates Israel is preparing to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.
You can read more here as developments unfold across the Middle East region at a time of massive political turbulence.
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