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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">'Stop Humanitarian Aid with Your Bodies' - Israelis Prevent Trucks from Entering Gaza</h1>January 25, 2024</div>
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Israelis obstruct humanitarian aid trucks at the Karem Abu Salem Crossing. (Photo: video grab)
<p><strong>By <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff" title="Display all articles for Palestine Chronicle Staff">Palestine Chronicle Staff</a></strong> </p>
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<h3><span>Families of Israeli captives obstructed on Thursday the entry
of humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip for the second day
in a row, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.</span></h3>
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<p><span>According to Haaretz, the families, along with right-wing
activists, blocked the passage of aid trucks to Gaza through the Kerem
Shalom (Karem Abu Salem) crossing.</span></p>
<p><span>Protesters reportedly closed the road to the crossing and prevented trucks loaded with humanitarian aid from passing.</span></p>
<p><span>“We are here today to show (Israeli) Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu that he can stop the trucks, just as we are stopping them
now,” Dany Elgart, a brother of one of the captives, reportedly said,
adding:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span>“I call on all citizens: come to the checkpoint and
stop this humanitarian aid with your bodies. It is not humanitarian at
all because it only serves one segment of the population there. The
hostages there do not receive any humanitarian aid.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span>The aid comes from abroad and is transported through Israel,
which announced the closure of crossings to the Gaza Strip on October 7,
according to Anadolu news agency. </span></p>
<p><span>On October 9, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced a
“complete siege” of the Gaza Strip. “We are fighting human animals, and
we are acting accordingly,” Gallant said.</span></p>
<p><span>Last December, a United Nations report described a catastrophic
situation in Gaza, where more than ninety percent of the population has
been facing “acute food insecurity,” and where “virtually all
households are skipping meals every day.”</span></p>
<p><span>According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 25,900 Palestinians
have been killed, and 64,110 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in
Gaza starting on October 7. </span></p>
<p><span>Palestinian and international estimates say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.</span></p>
<p><em>(PC, Anadolu)</em></p>
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