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First aid delivery due in Gaza in 'the next day or so' - UN

20 Oct 2023 05:17pm
Staff members unload aid for the Palestinian Gaza Strip from an Emirates cargo plane on the tarmac of Egypt's el-Arish airport in the north Sinai Peninsula on October 19, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. Photo by Giuseppe Cacace/AFP
Staff members unload aid for the Palestinian Gaza Strip from an Emirates cargo plane on the tarmac of Egypt's el-Arish airport in the north Sinai Peninsula on October 19, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. Photo by Giuseppe Cacace/AFP
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GENEVA - 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", the United Nations said Friday.

"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 told reporters in Geneva. - AFP

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