KEREM SHALOM CROSSING, Israel – There’s no doubt that innocent people are suffering in Gaza. The major question remains, however: who’s responsible?
CBN News traveled to the Kerem Shalom crossing at the Gaza border to get a better idea of the aid moving into Gaza.
Israel insists it is facilitating the movement of goods into the Gaza Strip.
Israel Defense Forces Colonel Elad Goren is responsible for expanding delivery and is attempting to do so by adding resources and having staff work longer hours.
“It means everything it can to mitigate the humanitarian consequences of Hamas’s actions in the Gaza Strip,” Goren explained.
Kerem Shalom crossing sits on the border, with the Gaza Strip clearly visible on the other side of the fence. Huge delivery trucks drive to the border area, drop off their goods, and come back. The United Nations and other groups are responsible for bringing trucks on the other side to pick up the food and other goods and take them into the Gaza Strip for distribution.
Before the outbreak of conflict last October, approximately 70 trucks a day went from Kerem Shalom through the gate into Gaza. Now, about 110 aid trucks daily take food to the
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