(1 May 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Erez border crossing, Israel – 1 May 2024
1. Various of trucks entering Erez border crossing
2. Humanitarian aid at border crossing
3. Zoom out to forklift unloading aid boxes
4. Boxes with Jordanian flag
5. Israeli soldiers
6. Destroyed buildings in Gaza as seen from Israel
7. Soldiers with boxes of aid
8. Set up shot, Col. Moshe Tetro, head of COGAT’s Coordination and Liaison Administration to Gaza
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. Moshe Tetro, head of COGAT’s (Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories) Coordination and Liaison Administration for Gaza:
“This is the first day that we re-opened Erez crossing for a robust and continuous route for entrance of humanitarian aid into Gaza, as you can see behind me those are the first trucks that came here today from Jordan and we are going to run this crossing hopefully everyday.”
10. Various of boxes of aid being unloaded from trucks
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Col. Moshe Tetro, head of COGAT’s (Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories) Coordination and Liaison Administration for Gaza:
“We are well aware that we are doing all those humanitarian operations and this humanitarian effort in a battlefield and we should all remember that while we are doing everything that we can, as the IDF, with our morals, in order to make sure that the humanitarian effort will run as smooth and as safe as we can, the other side Hamas, the terror regime of Hamas, does everything that they can in order to cynically use the humanitarian route, in order to promote their terror activities. This is a huge challenge and we are facing this challenge everyday.”
12. Gate of Erez border crossing
13. Various of damaged buildings in Gaza as seen from fence
STORYLINE:
Israel re-opened a crossing on Wednesday to allow aid to flow into the hard-hit northern Gaza Strip.
“This is the first day that we re-opened Erez crossing for a robust and continuous route for entrance of humanitarian aid into Gaza,” said Col. Moshe Tetro, head of COGAT’s Coordination and Liaison Administration to Gaza.
The U.S. has been pressuring Israel to do more to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, especially the devastated north.
International aid organizations have reported a widespread humanitarian disaster, warning that hundreds of thousands of people in northern Gaza face the risk of famine.
Before Hamas’ October 7 attack, Erez served as a passenger crossing for Palestinians, including medical patients, laborers and travelers, going in and out of Gaza. The crossing suffered heavy damage in the Oct. 7 attack and has been closed since then.
Nearly seven months of Israeli bombardment and ground offensives in Gaza have killed more than 34,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, and sparked a humanitarian catastrophe.
The Israel-Hamas war was sparked by the unprecedented Oct. 7 raid into southern Israel in which militants killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted around 250 hostages. Israel says the militants are still holding around 100 hostages and the remains of more than 30 others.
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