JERUSALEM: Israel will enable “temporary” support deliveries through its border with the northern Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace introduced Friday, hours after a warning from US President Joe Biden.”Israel will allow the temporary delivery of humanitarian aid through Ashdod and the Erez checkpoint,” the assertion from the prime minister’s workplace stated, referring to a port about 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Gaza and a land crossing.”This increased aid will prevent a humanitarian crisis and is necessary to ensure the continuation of the fighting and to achieve the goals of the war,” it added.The announcement comes as worldwide strain mounts on Israel after it took accountability for a strike that killed seven staff of US-based charity World Central Kitchen. In a tense, 30-minute name with Netanyahu on Thursday, Biden described the Israeli strike as “unacceptable and called for an “quick ceasefire”.He also “made clear that US coverage” will be determined by Israel taking “particular, concrete, and measurable steps to deal with civilian hurt, humanitarian struggling, and the protection of support staff”, according to a White House statement.Directly after Israel’s announcement, the White House welcomed the moves to “enhance support move to Gaza”, and called for them to be “totally and quickly applied”.Gaza has been under Israeli blockade since the start of the war, with the United Nations accusing Israel of preventing humanitarian aid deliveries and warning of “catastrophic” levels of hunger.Israel has denied throttling aid deliveries. The Hamas attack on October 7 resulted in the deaths of 1,170 Israelis and foreigners, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.Israel’s retaliatory campaign has killed at least 33,037 people, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.According to Friday’s statement, the Israeli authorities will also allow “elevated Jordanian support via Kerem Shalom”, a border crossing in southern Israel.
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