Ambulances wait at Gaza crossing into Egypt, aid trucks enter the besieged Strip

(3 Nov 2023) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Rafah Border Crossing, Gaza Strip - 3 November 2023 1. Various of ambulances with injured people waiting at border crossing to take patients to Egypt for treatment 2. Various of aid trucks arriving STORYLINE: At Rafah Border Crossing, ambulances with injured people queued to take patients to Egypt for treatment on Friday, and aid trucks arrived with much needed necessities for people in Gaza. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel to press for a humanitarian “pause” in the fighting with Hamas and for more aid to be allowed into besieged Gaza. Roughly 800 people — including hundreds of Palestinians with foreign passports and dozens of injured — have been allowed to leave the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing under an apparent agreement among the U.S., Egypt, Israel and Qatar, which mediates with Hamas. Israel has allowed more than 260 trucks carrying food and medicine through the crossing, but aid workers say it’s not nearly enough. Israeli authorities have refused to allow fuel in. The Palestinian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war has reached 9,061, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza. In the occupied West Bank, more than 140 Palestinians have been killed in violence and Israeli raids. More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, most of them in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack that started the fighting, and 242 hostages were taken from Israel into Gaza by the militant group. AP video shot by Mohammad Jahjouh =========================================================== Clients are reminded to adhere to all listed restrictions and to check the terms of their licence agreements. For further assistance, please contact the AP Archive on: Tel 44(0)2074827482 Email: info@. Find out more about AP Archive: Twitter: Facebook: ​​ Instagram: You can license this story through AP Archive: