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SvennoJ on 01 May 2024
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Promise was to immediately open it after the outrage over the WCK murders April 1st, took a month... But finally

Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing reopens for first time since start of war

For the first time since October 7, an aid convoy consisting of 31 trucks has entered northern Gaza through the border crossing into Beit Hanoon, which is called the “Erez” crossing in Israel.

This is the main route for foot traffic that was damaged in the October 7 attack by Hamas. Israeli authorities said they were going to open it last month to allow aid in. This is in the northern part of the Gaza Strip; that’s the area where people are most in need, particularly with warnings of famine coming from that northern section.

It’s been opened today; no coincidence that’s in line with [US Secretary of State Antony] Blinken’s visit because the Americans have been pushing for more aid to get in.

Jordanian public service media outlet Al-Mamlaka TV reports that a Jordanian aid convoy consisting of 31 trucks entered Gaza via the Beit Hanoon crossing, known as the Erez crossing to Israelis.

The Times of Israel quoted army Colonel Moshe Tetro, head of Israel’s Coordination and Liaison Administration for Gaza, who said he hopes the crossing will be open every day and will help reach a target of 500 aid trucks entering Gaza daily.


Israel says Beit Hanoon crossing enabling ‘substantial aid’ to Gaza

The Israeli military has released footage of the Jordanian trucks that we reported earlier had been allowed into northern Gaza after the Beit Hanoon crossing – known to Israelis as the Erez crossing – was reopened for the first time since October 7.

The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which is in charge of organising aid, said Beit Hanoon underwent construction to turn it from a civilian crossing into an aid crossing.

“The forces constructed inspection and protection infrastructure in the area and paved roads in both Israeli and Gazan territory, enabling the entry of substantial amounts of aid to the northern part of the Gaza Strip,” it said.

The Government Media Office in Gaza said earlier that there has only been an uptick in humanitarian aid going into the enclave, still far below Palestinians’ needs, especially in northern Gaza.



Let's hope it gets more than the 31 (compromised) trucks conveniently entering while Blinken is there.

Israeli settler attack on aid convoys ‘warrants global condemnation’: Jordan FM

The Jordanian foreign minister says the “despicable attack by radical Israeli settlers” on two Jordanian convoys taking desperately needed humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza “warrants global condemnation”.

“Protecting the convoys is a legal obligation of Israel as the occupying power,” Ayman Safadi wrote in a post on X after the Jordanian foreign ministry officially condemned the attacks.

Safadi said one of the attacked trucks was the first to enter Gaza through the Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing, which has just been reopened.