Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Ottawa has trucks of aid ready to achieve desperate Palestinians in Gaza, and is counting on Israel to permit them through.
Anand says Jordan, which borders Israel and the West Bank, has allowed Canada to pre-position aid, until Israel allows it to enter the Gaza Strip.
She says she spoke along with her Israeli counterpart Friday “to hunt assurances that trucks carrying Canadian aid can be allowed to enter Gaza.”
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Since then, Israel has said it will allow for some humanitarian corridors to be established, in order that United Nations groups can deliver aid, in addition to possible airdrops.
The choice got here after months of experts warning that Israel’s tight restrictions on aid risk making a famine, and after tons of of Palestinians have been killed while attempting to seek food at sites established by Israel.
Israel has downplayed reports by quite a few humanitarian groups operating on the bottom of starvation deaths, and claims the UN has did not distribute aid, though UN agencies say Israel still isn’t allowing in enough food and fuel.
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