Aide humanitaire à Gaza : un défi logistique et diplomatique via l’Égypte.
Les présidents américain et égyptien ont annoncé, jeudi, qu’un accord avait été trouvé pour permettre l’acheminement d’aide humanitaire dans le sud de Gaza via le poste-frontière de Rafah.
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00:00 The American and Egyptian presidents announced, on Thursday, that an agreement had been found
00:04 to allow humanitarian aid to be sent to southern Gaza via the Rafah border post.
00:08 An operation that presents an important logistical challenge, due to the destruction caused by
00:13 Israeli bombings in the area, but also diplomatic, the United States and Israel fear that the
00:18 aid may be confiscated by Hamas.
00:20 It is the only gateway to the enclave that is not controlled by Israel.
00:25 Since the start of the Israeli strike campaign in Gaza, on October 7, in retaliation for
00:30 the Hamas' murderous attack on the Hebrew state, the Rafah crossing point, at the Egyptian
00:35 border, has been the subject of all attention.
00:37 While tens of thousands of Gazans fled to the south, fearing the imminence of an Israeli
00:43 terrestrial operation in the enclave, the United States and Egypt finally announced,
00:47 Thursday, October 19, an agreement aimed at allowing humanitarian aid to be sent via
00:51 Egypt.
00:52 This announcement comes on the eve of Joe Biden's visit to Israel and while many
00:56 international organizations, and in particular the WHO, are warning of the catastrophic situation
01:01 in Gaza, which is estimated to have displaced nearly half of the population in 13 days of
01:06 conflict.
01:07 Nearly 3,500 people were killed in Gaza in Israeli strikes, according to the Palestinian
01:12 Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas.
01:15 Entire neighborhoods were razed and are without water, food or electricity.
01:20 Up to 20 trucks will leave on Friday.
01:23 The American president has claimed to have obtained Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
01:29 to let up to 20 trucks cross, first of all, at the Rafah crossing.
01:33 A figure much lower than the demand of the head of the United Nations' Emergency Humanitarian
01:38 Situations, Martin Griffiths, who had demanded substantial aid, of the order of 100 trucks
01:43 a day.
01:44 For several days, some 150 trucks containing 300 tons of international aid have been positioned
01:50 near the Egyptian border post, waiting for the green light of the authorities.
01:54 The UN and the humanitarian organizations of the emergency are prepared to position medical
01:58 equipment, water and food from Egypt to be ready to enter, but the Rafah crossing
02:04 remains closed and is being deplored by Jean-François Corti, vice president of the World Health Organization.
02:08 The total blockade exerted on Gaza could not be anticipated so there was no
02:12 reserve in water or food, the humanitarian, qualifying the situation for the civilians
02:17 of Eucataclismic.
02:18 On Sunday, Israel announced the resumption of water distribution in the south of the
02:22 Gaza Strip but, according to the humanitarian organizations present there, supply
02:27 remains very difficult.
02:28 Despite the emergency, the aid process will probably not be able to begin before Friday
02:34 due to the significant damage caused by the Israeli strikes in the area, warned Egypt.
02:39 The road allowing the aid process between Gaza and the Rafah crossing point has been
02:43 destroyed, explained the head of Egyptian diplomacy, Sameh Shoukry, on the Al-Gad channel
02:48 based in Cairo, indicating that work is necessary.
02:51 This was to take 8 hours, estimated, Wednesday, Joe Biden.
02:57 Minute 34.
02:58 The spokesperson for the Egyptian presidency, moreover, confirmed that Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
03:04 and Joe Biden had agreed on the proceedings of aid via the Rafah terminal, in a
03:08 sustainable way.
03:09 The United States in the mediator.
03:11 The agreement on the proceedings of humanitarian aid is crowned by a sequence of intense diplomatic
03:16 negotiations between the United States, Egypt and Israel.
03:20 While the subject had already been addressed by the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken,
03:25 during his marathon tour in the Middle East, Joe Biden struck the nail on Saturday,
03:30 underlining, with the Israeli president, to work with the UN and regional powers to provide
03:35 "innocent civilians" access to water, food and medical care, cut off by the Hebrew
03:40 after the attack on Hamas on his ground.
03:42 The opening of the Rafah gate was a major issue for Joe Biden and American diplomacy,
03:48 underlined Matthew Mabin, correspondent to France 24 in Washington.
03:52 For researcher Pascal Boniface, Washington hopes to avoid a humanitarian disaster that
03:57 would have a destructive impact on Israel and its allies.
04:00 The fear of a detour by Hamas.
04:03 On the Israeli side, the government has indicated that it would not oppose the proceedings of
04:08 aid via Egypt as long as it is food, water and medicine for the civilian population
04:12 in the south of the Gaza Strip, confirmed the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
04:17 Netanyahu.
04:18 The Hebrew state has warned, on the other hand, that this aid will not pass through its territory
04:23 as long as the hostages of Hamas are not released.
04:26 The Palestinian movement claims to have detained between 200 and 250 people.
04:30 Israel estimates that 203 of them are Israeli, according to a new report published on Thursday.
04:36 Finally, the passage of aid is a matter of concern for the Hebrew state, which fears
04:41 to see its hostages captured by Hamas at the expense of civilians.
04:44 Any supplies that arrive to Hamas will be neutralized, the government has warned.
04:49 On the same line, the American president mentioned this risk aboard Air Force One on Wednesday
04:55 when he left Tel Aviv.
04:57 "If Hamas confiscates aid and does not let it pass, then it will stop, because we will
05:01 not see any humanitarian aid to Hamas.
05:04 Tension around a possible exodus.
05:06 If it is considered acquired, no official announcement has been made to them regarding
05:11 the American request to Egypt to allow the evacuation of the few 600 Americans by the
05:16 Rafah border post.
05:17 It must be said that the issue is particularly sensitive because the Cairo has been firmly
05:21 opposed, since the beginning of the crisis, to the massive entry of Palestinian refugees
05:25 on its soil.
05:26 In addition to the risk of an internal destabilization caused by such an influx, the Egyptian president
05:32 estimated that pushing the Palestinians to leave their land is a way to end it
05:35 with the Palestinian cause.
05:37 For France 24 Correspondent at the Cairo, Edouard Dropsy, the war between Israel and
05:42 Hamas highlights the tensions between the two countries, which have been objective allies
05:46 since the Camp David agreements in 1978 and which are at a critical moment.
05:50 On Wednesday, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that any forced movement of Palestinians
05:56 into the Sinai would be rejected by millions of Egyptians.
05:58 A warning barely veiled in the place of Israel.
06:02 1h28. With AFP and Reuters.