Ammon News - President Biden said Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi has agreed to open the gates to the Rafah border crossing, where trucks carrying aid to the Gaza Strip have been waiting. Biden said up to 20 trucks of humanitarian assistance to Gaza will be allowed to go through. That is about one eighth of what aid workers estimate is required to meet the needs of 1.7 million people now gathered in south Gaza.

Biden acknowledged the roads would first need to be repaired and that assistance might not begin moving into Gaza until later in the week.

He said the United Nations would be tasked with distributing the aid and warned that any future relief would be contingent on ensuring Hamas does not 'confiscate' it.

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