Humanitarian aid is stuck at Gaza-Egypt border as Israeli siege strains hospitals, water supply
Wounded Palestinians arrive to al-Shifa hospital, following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Truckloads of aid idled at Egypt's border with Gaza on Monday, as residents and humanitarian groups pleaded for water, food, and fuel for dying generators, saying the tiny Palestinian territory sealed off by Israel after last week's rampage by Hamas was near total collapse.
Hospitals full of wounded were on the verge of losing electricity, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced from their homes searched for bread...
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