Today, 20 trucks carrying a first, but small, supply of life-saving humanitarian aid from the UN and the Egyptian Red Crescent crossed the Rafah Crossing into Gaza.
It will offer some of the hundreds of thousands of civilians — mostly women and children — who have been cut off from water, food, medication, fuel, and other necessities a critically needed lifeline. However, it is really a modest start and far from sufficient. More than 1.6 million Gaza residents require urgent humanitarian assistance. The most susceptible continue to be young children, pregnant women, and the elderly. Children make for about half of the population of Gaza.
Given that over two weeks of nonstop bombardment in Gaza had damaged or destroyed a significant amount of civilian infrastructure, including shelters and medical institutions, [!]