Israel announced this Wednesday that it will allow humanitarian aid is delivered to the Gaza Strip, but only in limited quantities and through the Rafah border crossing. This is the first concession in a total eleven-day siege against the territory. However, it will arrive, predictably, this Friday and with restrictions because it does not allow the delivery of fuel, something that the besieged city urgently needs for the hospitals to function.

The announcement of allowing entry of water, food, medicines and other supplies has occurred after the visit of the president of the United States, Joe Biden, to Israel. It is the only commitment that the president has been able to extract, while the fury over the massacre at the Al Ahli hospital spreads throughout the Middle East. Biden explained that the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, had agreed to open the Rafah border crossing and allow the entry of a first group of 20 trucks with humanitarian aid.

However, this help comes from limitation. Biden himself maintained this Wednesday that if Hamas confiscates the aid, “it will be over.” “Israel accepted that humanitarian aid can begin to flow from Egypt to Gaza. Let me be clear: if Hamas diverts or steals aidwill have demonstrated once again that he is not concerned about the well-being of the Palestinian people,” he said after agreeing to the step with the Egyptian president.

The Egyptian Government has reiterated that the crossing is open on the Egyptian side, but on the Palestinian side it is closed because it does not yet have permission from Israel and because the road is destroyed due to at least four bombings launched by the Jewish State since last October 7. The pass was even attacked by Israel when workers were working to repair it, causing four Egyptian workers to be injured, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri has revealed.