The United Nations humanitarian relief chief is urging Israel to open all entrances to Gaza to allow a surge of aid into the territory.
Tom Fletcher, UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief spoke to CBC News from El-Arish, Egypt, after visiting the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza.
“It was quite an emotional visit for me,” he said.
“Because for months and months, our supplies have been piling up. And we’ve been desperate to get them moving, desperate to see those lorries heading into Gaza.”
Humanitarian aid h as begun flowing but Fletcher says it needs to scaled up dramatically with "thousands of trucks a week” carrying food, medicine and other supplies into the te
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