In mid-October 2023, the network went around the footage of a huge traffic jam that arose, arising, on the border of Egypt and Gaza sector due to the fact that Israel allegedly opposed missing humanitarian goods to the region. We checked whether such a description of this video is true.
According to publications on social networks, Israel blocked the humanitarian aid column for the gas sector-goods gathered by governments of different countries of the world, international organizations and charitable funds remained on the border after the RAFA checkpoint was closed by Egypt. As confirmation, the authors of the posts used a video of 1 min. 44 seconds, on which a huge caravan of heavy vehicles stands in the desert.
This information was most active in Telegram, in particular thanks to the channels "Live broadcast"(780,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Truthfulness"(216 000),"Putin in Telegram"(192 000), Voblya (176 000), "Bullet"(139,000) and"Kostyan Cat - Official Channel"(97 000).
The radical Islamic movement Hamas (the European Union, the USA, Israel and other countries recognized it as a terrorist organization) on the morning of October 7 Apply A series of missile strikes in Israeli territory. At the same time, militants penetrated the border settlements of this country, where Killed Hundreds of civilians, and about 200 hostages Beded to the gas sector. In response, Israel began to conduct air strikes in this Palestinian territory and announced The early beginning of a terrestrial operation in the region, while the Hamas group Continued The shelling of Israeli cities.
On October 9, the Minister of Defense of Israel announced The introduction of the complete blockade of the gas sector - electricity, fuel and food stopped to arrive there. This decision was condemned, in particular, human rights organizations Human Rights Watch And Amnesty International, as well as the Supreme EU representative for foreign affairs and security policy Josep Borrel. The humanitarian situation in the region aggravated due to migration-hundreds of thousands of people, including after calls Israel leave the north of the gas sector, moved In the southern part of the region, where refugees turned out to be such a stream Not ready. The RAFAC checkpoint on the border with Egypt at the time of writing this analysis does not work-as because of Israeli airlines, and because of fearsthat the delivered goods will be at the disposal of Hamas. Callpiece "Erez" on the border with Israel was closed Soon after the attack of the militants. Moreover, since 2007, when the group came to power in the gas sector, the government in Jerusalem and Cairo partially Blocked The region is around were built Walls and fences, and the movement of people and goods was strictly controlled.
Over the past days on the Egyptian side I accumulated A large volume of humanitarian aid for residents of the gas sector, who arrived from around the world. On Wednesday, October 18, US President Joe Biden after a conversation with his Egyptian colleague Abdel Fattah As-Sisi (this was preceded by prolonged negotiation with Israel) declaredthat the parties reached an agreement on sending about 20 trucks with food, medicines and fuel through the checkpoint "" to the gas sector. It was assumed that the trucks would go to the Palestinians on October 20, however, as reports CNN with reference to its own sources, the beginning of flights for technical reasons was postponed for a short time. Egypt, in turn, announced On the creation of a "stable corridor" for humanitarian flights. It is reported that the goods will begin to deliver on a regular basis if Hamas does not try to interfere with the movement of the trucks or capture them.
Humanitarian assistance for Palestinians to the territory of Egypt enters mainly through the airport of the city of Al-Arsh on the Sinai Peninsula, 45 km from the border with gas. The vans with these cargo over the past days have repeatedly fell into the lenses of the world media-both near the Rafach checkpoint and in al-Arish.
The Egyptian flag is visible on the video that was dispersed along social networks, and the terrain really resembles the surroundings of Rafach.
However, in no recent photo or video report from this area, it is not a long line of trucks from this area, and they look completely different.
In the upper right corner of the image, you can see the logo of the Egyptian television channel Al Nahar.
Video spreading in October 2023, It was laid out in the official account of the channel in Facebook, but the date is not at all recent - May 31, 2021. As stated in the description of the video, "for the third time, Egypt sends the largest convoys of support and help to the Palestinians in Gaza." Indeed, then Egypt in the person of the Tahya Misr State Fund organized the delivery of several multi -toned to the gas sector Humanitarian convoys After 11 days of air shelling of the region from Israel, which followed the Hamas missile attack. The delivery of assistance was carried out as usual, the blocking of goods at the border was not reported.
Thus, the viral video has become genuine, but is accompanied by incorrect comments and has nothing to do with the current escalation of a long-term Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In addition, the decisive word in the unlocking of the Rafach checkpoint for humanitarian goods remained behind the Egyptian side, and not behind Israel, as you can understand from the posts in social networks. Before hugging in Russian -speaking The segment of social networks, a video with an incorrect signature actively diverged in Arabic - largely thanks to publications User @sameh_asker in the social network X (2.2 million views).
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