{"id":17611,"date":"2024-04-05T12:46:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T12:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/israeli-cabinet-approves-reopening-northern-gaza-border-crossing-for-first-time-since-october-7-says-official\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T12:46:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T12:46:26","slug":"israeli-cabinet-approves-reopening-northern-gaza-border-crossing-for-first-time-since-october-7-says-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/israeli-cabinet-approves-reopening-northern-gaza-border-crossing-for-first-time-since-october-7-says-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli cabinet approves reopening northern Gaza border crossing for first time since October 7, says official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The Israeli official said the crossing would be opened to allow more humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. The cabinet also approved using the Israeli Port of Ashdod to help transfer more aid to Gaza.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            The announcement comes amid mounting international fury over Israeli strikes that killed seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen in Gaza. Israel has acknowledged responsibility for the deaths, but maintains attack was not intentional.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            US President Joe Biden said Thursday that the overall humanitarian situation in Gaza is unacceptable in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and warned Israel to take steps to address the crisis or face consequences.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Since the October 7 terror attacks, Israel\u2019s siege of Gaza has killed more than 32,916 people, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, and has led to a spiraling humanitarian crisis where nearly\u202fthree-quarters\u202fof the population in northern Gaza are suffering from catastrophic levels of hunger, according to a United Nations-backed report.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Land crossings into Gaza, through which the bulk of vital aid has traditionally entered the territory, remain heavily restricted by Israel.\u00a0Aid agencies have accused Israel\u00a0of throttling the entry of relief into the war-ravaged territory, though Israel has said it has \u201cno limit\u201d on the amount of relief that can enter.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Before the war started, Israel restricted all access to and from Gaza by sea and air, and kept land crossings under tight control. It had\u00a0two functional crossings with the enclave: Erez, which was for the movement of people, and Kerem Shalom, for goods.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Gaza also has one crossing with Egypt, at Rafah, which is run by Egyptian authorities. While Israel has no direct control over this crossing, it monitors all activity in southern Gaza.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant vowed to halt the supply of electricity, food, water and fuel to the Palestinian enclave after Hamas militants killed 1,200 people in Israel and took more than 250 hostages on October 7.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            Aid to trickle in through Rafah at the end of October, and, following pressure from the US, Israel began\u00a0allowing aid trucks to pass through Kerem Shalom\u00a0in late December \u2013 but at rates far below the 500 commercial and aid trucks a day before the war.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">            This is a developing story and will be updated.    <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli official said the crossing would be opened to allow more humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. The cabinet also approved using the Israeli Port of Ashdod to help transfer more aid to Gaza. The announcement comes amid mounting international fury over Israeli strikes that killed seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen in <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}