The Israel Defense Forces said that the Kerem Shalom gate, which was closed due to protests, was reopened to bring aid to Gaza. The Rafah crossing to Egypt remains closed due to Israeli operations there. Israel on Wednesday reopened a key crossing for humanitarian aid into southern Gaza that was closed due to Hamas rocket fire. The move comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised President Joe Biden that he would reopen the Kerem Shalom crossing point in a conference call on Monday, the White House said.
4 soldiers died and 10 soldiers were injured when rockets fired from Gaza hit a gathering point near the border gate on Sunday. The terrorist organization Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, which the Israeli army said was launched from an area close to the Rafah gate on Gaza's Egyptian border.
The lawyer opposing the COGAT conference hall said that the Kerem Shalom gate was reopened on Wednesday morning to allow trucks to enter Gaza, in accordance with the "instructions of the political leadership". COGAT said that aid trucks coming from Egypt were inspected by Israel in Kerem Shalom before entering the Gaza Strip, as in previous months.
However, the United Nations organization for Palestinian refugees said that no aid had arrived yet and no Palestinians had been reached. The port is still closed. Israeli defense forces said on Tuesday morning that they had captured the Rafah border crossing in a night raid that the army described as a "correct operation" targeting the terrorist group Hamas.
The ground attack in the east of Rafah came after Jerusalem said Hamas' decision the day before did not meet its demands and announced that it had agreed to continue the long struggle in the south of Gaza.
An Israeli official told The Times of Israel that this was a "limited operation" to force Hamas to accept the agreement.
About 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) from the Israeli border, the Rafah crossing, called the Philadelphia Corridor, separating Egypt and Gaza, is also used to transport aid vehicles after Israeli inspections.
The army said in a statement on Wednesday morning that the army killed several gunmen and found shafts during operations east of Rafah the previous day. The IDF said that in the incident east of Rafah, Givati Brigade soldiers spotted an agent carrying a rocket and shot him.
The Army said the 401st Armored Brigade evacuated the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing because "there was information and intelligence that terrorists were using the crossing to carry out terrorist activities."
Meanwhile, the IDF added that its air force hit more than 100 targets in the Gaza Strip in the past day, including buildings, observation points and rockets used by the group.
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