JAKARTA - Egypt's foreign minister said on Monday the flow of aid to the Gaza Strip, Palestine did not increase despite last week's agreement between the European Union and Israel that should have resulted in this.
"Nothing has changed (on the pitch)," Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told reporters ahead of a meeting of the European Union-Central East in Brussels, Belgium.
Earlier, European Union Policy Chief Kaja Kallas announced that his party had reached an agreement with Israel to improve the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, including adding aid trucks and opening crossing points and certain aid routes.
"This agreement means more crossings are opened, aid and food trucks enter Gaza, improvement of vital infrastructure, and protection for aid workers. We rely on Israel to implement every agreed step," Kallas said in a Thursday announcement last week.
Yesterday, Kallas said there were some good signs regarding more trucks and aid supplies arriving in Gaza, but it wanted to see more improvements in the field.
"We see some good signs regarding more trucks coming, more supplies to the Gaza people, but of course we know that this is not enough, and we need to encourage more implementation of what we have agreed to also occur in the field," he explained.
Separately, when asked what steps Israel had taken, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar referred to the agreement with the European Union but did not provide details on its implementation.
Meanwhile, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi when asked if there was any improvement after the agreement told reporters the situation in Gaza was still "catastropic".
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"There was a real disaster that occurred in Gaza due to the continuing siege of Israel," he stressed.
Foreign Minister Safadi said Israel had allowed 40 to 50 trucks to enter a few days ago from Jordan, but that was "far from sufficient" for the trapped enclave.
It is known that Israel's ongoing military operations and blockades have left the entire population of Gaza, which amounts to 2.3 million people facing acute food insecurity, with nearly half a million people at risk of starvation by the end of September, according to a joint United Nations report last month.
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