Israel to pause fighting for 10 hours a day to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza
發佈日期: 2025-07-27 19:47
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The Israeli military has announced a pause in military activity in three designated areas of Gaza, shortly after it said it was taking several steps
to ease the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave.
The limited pause in fighting will be for 10 hours a day to increase the scale of humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.
Aid trucks have started moving towards Gaza from Egypt as a result and the Israeli military said it had carried out aid airdrops into Gaza.
Tracey Furniss has more.
Israel Defence Forces released video footage of what it said were airdrops of humanitarian aid in coordination with international organisations.
It was led by COGAT, the Israeli defence agency in charge of aid coordination in the Palestinian territory.
The Israeli military said items that were airdropped include packages containing flour, sugar and canned food.
It comes as Israel's military announced that airdrops would begin Saturday night in Gaza and humanitarian corridors would be established for United Nations convoys
after increasing accounts of starvation-related deaths.
Thousands of desperate Palestinians made their way to the Zikim crossing in northern Gaza, risking their lives in a frantic search for food.
Hospital officials reported a number of Palestinians were killed in recent weeks near this border.
This woman said her children have not eaten for a week and they have been moving from place to place looking for food.
This man from Jebaliya said the situation in northern Gaza is very bad. He said that aid comes through the nearby Zikim crossing and they get nothing
as "gangs and mafias attack you and take your bag of flour."
People wait too in Gaza City in central Gaza. Their pots empty.
This woman, also from Jebaliya, said her house was destroyed and her child died of hunger during the month of Ramadan last year.
She now has another sick child and is scared he might die too because there is no food or water.
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the airdrops and convoys "a start" but said Israel was quite clearly breaching international law
by stopping humanitarian aid and food from being delivered into Gaza.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said: "Well, quite clearly it is a breach of international law to stop food being delivered, which was a decision that Israel made in March.
(Reporter:) So it's breached international law?
Well, I'm not a lawyer, those things will play out their course. But I tell you what it's a breach of, it's a breach of decent humanity and of morality and everyone can see that."
