The United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNWRA) has announced the suspension of food distribution in Rafah, due to supply and security problems in that city in southern Gaza, the scene of fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. “Food distribution in Rafah is currently suspended due to lack of supplies and insecurity,” UNWRA said on the social network UNRWA distribution center and WFP warehouse in Rafah are inaccessible,” he said.
Arrivals via the floating pier built by the United States have also been blocked for two days. According to the Guardian, the plan to use that passage for aid by sea is also at risk due to Israel’s lack of guarantees for humanitarian agencies.
Meanwhile, CNN, citing three sources, reveals that the latest attempt to reach a peace agreement in the Middle East has failed due to incorrectness on the part of Egyptian mediators, who changed the terms of the agreement without notifying the other participants in the talks underway at Cairo.
Israel had already given its approval to a truce agreement which included the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees and a ceasefire of several weeks. According to the US broadcaster, it was precisely the change decided by Egyptian intelligence that caused the agreement to fail on May 6th. The conditions presented to Hamas were different from those agreed upon by the other negotiators, Qatar and the USA, who together with Israel felt “deceived”, causing the agreement to fail. Particularly embarrassed and angry about this incorrect operation would have been CIA director Bill Burns, according to CNN.