Hamas rejects US aid dock in Gaza and insists on reopening land crossings

May 18. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) insisted this Friday that it does not accept the existence of the provisional aid dock installed by the United States in the Gaza Strip, understanding it as an outpost of a possible foreign intervention in the enclave and insisted on its immediate reopening. of land crossings to Gaza to resume and increase assistance.

“We and the rest of the Palestinian resistance factions affirm the right of our people to receive all the help they need in light of the humanitarian catastrophe created by the occupation in its brutal aggression against the Gaza Strip,” it states. Hamas in a statement collected by the newspaper ‘Filastin’, close to the Islamist movement.

Hamas has also estimated that “no sea route represents an alternative to the opening of all land crossings under Palestinian supervision.”

The United Kingdom announced this Friday the shipment of a first shipment of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip through the floating dock installed by the United States as part of an international initiative, with the United Arab Emirates, consisting of 8,400 ‘kits’ that include plastics for set up temporary shelters.

London, which has contributed £9.7 million to the initiative (€11.3 million), will send “in the coming weeks” an additional 2,000 ‘kits’, 900 tents, five forklifts and 9,200 ‘kits’. ‘ personal hygiene.

The European Union has also announced this Friday that it is mobilizing food to supply the Gaza Strip through the floating dock, once the United States has assured this Thursday that the provisional infrastructure on a beach in Gaza that will serve to facilitate delivery was already ready. of humanitarian aid to the enclave.

In this sense, the European Commission has noted the sending of a shipment of aid from Cyprus to Gaza and that, through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, Romania mobilizes in this supply more than 88,000 cans of food for Palestinians in need.