Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty stressed that the compromise reached last week stipulates the daily entry into the coastal enclave of some 600 truckloads of goods.

Abdelatty also highlighted Cairo’s ongoing efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to the Strip through the Rafah border crossing, which has been occupied by the Israeli army since May last year.

We will work to ensure that the cease-fire in Gaza is implemented, the official stressed.

The military incursion against the crossing and the neighboring city of the same name, bordering Egypt, forced the closure of the only window that the coastal enclave had until then with the outside world.

On repeated occasions, countries, non-governmental organizations, and various UN agencies have called on the Israeli authorities to reopen Rafah and other crossings to increase the volume of humanitarian aid entering the besieged territory.

Israel launched the operation on the grounds of combating the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and preventing the alleged smuggling of arms and ammunition from the Egyptian side, although Cairo has repeatedly rejected this claim.

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