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Israel Says Aid Shipment Reaches Northern Gaza

Muslim worshippers perform the weekly Friday prayers in a tent enclosure by destroyed buildings in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 18, 2024 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (AFP)
Muslim worshippers perform the weekly Friday prayers in a tent enclosure by destroyed buildings in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 18, 2024 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (AFP)
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Israel Says Aid Shipment Reaches Northern Gaza

Muslim worshippers perform the weekly Friday prayers in a tent enclosure by destroyed buildings in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 18, 2024 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (AFP)
Muslim worshippers perform the weekly Friday prayers in a tent enclosure by destroyed buildings in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 18, 2024 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (AFP)

Israel’s military said Friday it allowed 30 trucks of humanitarian aid into northern Gaza, the latest delivery over the past week as Israel faces pressure from the US to ramp up aid.

The Israeli military body in charge of humanitarian aid, COGAT, said the trucks carried food, water, medical supplies and shelter equipment. There was no immediate confirmation from the UN that the aid arrived and was being distributed in the north.

Aid crossings to the north of the strip were closed for the first two weeks of October, the UN says, sending food and water levels plunging in an area where some of the heaviest fighting in Gaza is taking place.

The closures raised fears that Israel was implementing an extreme plan proposed by Israeli generals to besiege northern Gaza and starve out Hamas fighters there.

Following a letter from the US saying the continual closures could risk continued weapons funding for Israel, Israel says that crossings have reopened and aid is continuing to flow.

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Italy’s PM in Beirut, Says Europe Wants a ‘Sustainable Ceasefire’ in Gaza and Lebanon

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (R) shakes hands with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (L) following a joint press conference at the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon, 18 October 2024. (EPA)
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (R) shakes hands with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (L) following a joint press conference at the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon, 18 October 2024. (EPA)
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Italy’s PM in Beirut, Says Europe Wants a ‘Sustainable Ceasefire’ in Gaza and Lebanon

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (R) shakes hands with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (L) following a joint press conference at the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon, 18 October 2024. (EPA)
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati (R) shakes hands with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (L) following a joint press conference at the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon, 18 October 2024. (EPA)

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said European countries are working for a “sustainable ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

Speaking in Beirut after meeting Friday with her Lebanese counterpart, Najib Mikati, Meloni said European nations also support negotiations for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza since October last year.

Mikati said “a diplomatic solution should overcome” war that has intensified in recent weeks into an Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon, and that Israel must agree to a ceasefire.

Meloni added that targeting UN peacekeepers deployed along the Lebanon-Israel border is unacceptable and that both sides must “ensure at all times the safety of each of these soldiers.” She stressed that the peacekeepers will be needed in any post-conflict scenario.

Over the past two weeks, UN posts along the border have been subjected to fire that that has wounded at least five peacekeepers.

Meloni said the peacekeeping force in south Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, must be strengthened and that UNIFIL and Lebanese troops should be the only armed forces in the area south of the Litani river along the border with Israel.

According to a 2006 UN Security Council resolution that ended the 34-day Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006, Hezbollah should have no presence in the area along the border with Israel.