Egypt's Rafa Border Checkpoint Finally Opens... Relief Supplies Allowed In

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Relief supplies for residents of the Gaza Strip, who are in crisis due to Israel's full blockade and retaliatory airstrikes, were brought in for the first time on the 21st (local time).

According to foreign media including AFP, at 10:14 a.m. on the same day, trucks carrying relief supplies for Gaza Strip residents began crossing into Gaza from the Rafah border checkpoint in Egypt.

The Rafah border checkpoint, the virtually only passage connecting Egypt and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, was opened for the first time in two weeks since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas.

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Earlier, Israel and Egypt conditionally agreed to bring in the first batch of relief supplies equivalent to 20 trucks into the Gaza Strip on the occasion of U.S. President Joe Biden's visit to Israel on the 18th.

However, the entry of relief supplies had been delayed due to issues such as road repairs caused by craters from Israeli bombings.

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