Concrete barriers installed by the Egyptians on their border with besieged Gaza after Israeli bombardment were removeda source in the Egyptian security forces told AFP today, which seems to indicate that humanitarian aid will soon pass through.

On the 14th day of the war between Israel and Hamaswhich erupted after an unprecedented bloody attack by the ruling Palestinian movement in Gaza, The UN estimates that Gaza’s roughly 2.4 million residents – half of them children – are on the brink of “disaster” because Israel denies them all access to water, electricity and fuel.. As for food supplies, they will soon be exhausted.

Israel categorically refuses to open the border crossings with Gaza. Nevertheless Americans managed to convince Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to give the green light to send aid from Egypt through the Rafah passageof Gaza’s only opening to the world that is not in the hands of Israel.

Although for days planes from all over the world bring aid in food and medicinenone of these cargoes have so far been able to enter Gaza, where the toll of Israeli bombardment is almost 3,800 dead, of which at least 1,500 are children, and more than 12,000 wounded, according to local authorities.

Egypt continues to repair bombed roads leading to Palestinian terminal and today “Egyptian vehicles and material entered to repair the road from the Palestinian side,” eyewitnesses told AFP.

concrete dams, which were stationed on the border near the Rafah pass, were taken away by the Egyptians overnight, according to a security source.

yesterday, thursday, Cairo announced that “Rafa will open on Friday”without giving further details.

Previously US President Joe Biden he had declared that he was succeeded by the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to “let up to 20 trucks pass”, a number totally insufficient, according to the UN, which estimates at least 100 trucks a day the needs of Gazans – 60% of whom were already dependent on international food aid before the war.

US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said US aid envoy to Gaza David Satterfield “met with Israeli and Egyptian officials to establish mechanisms to implement the agreement”.

Israel, which has imposed a strict blockade of Gaza for more than 16 years, he does not stop repeating that he is afraid that Hamas will benefit from the aid and not the civilians and he set his conditions: aid will only go to “civilians” and exclusively “in the southern part of the Gaza Strip”, to which the Israeli army ordered Gazans to move.