{"id":44125,"date":"2025-02-21T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/israel-closes-main-crossing-for-aid-deliveries-to-the-gaza-strip\/21\/02\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T19:39:00","slug":"israel-closes-main-crossing-for-aid-deliveries-to-the-gaza-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/israel-closes-main-crossing-for-aid-deliveries-to-the-gaza-strip\/21\/02\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel closes main crossing for aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Israel has closed the main crossing for aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday, without providing any reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spokesman Omer Dostri stated on X that &#8220;the Kerem Shalom crossing is closed today, and no equipment has entered Gaza since yesterday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Israeli authority for Palestinian affairs, COGAT, also confirmed the closure when asked, without giving any reasons either.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Palestinian militant organization Hamas, about 10 container houses were brought into Gaza through Kerem Shalom shortly before the closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The delivery of these temporary homes for the about 2 million Gazans living in tents and ruins is one of Hamas&#8217; key demands for the continuation of the ceasefire and the agreed exchange of Israeli hostages from Gaza for imprisoned Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Saturday, another six hostages being held in Gaza are to be exchanged for what Palestinian sources say are 602 Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/israel-closes-main-crossing-aid-171928771.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has closed the main crossing for aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/israel-closes-main-crossing-for-aid-deliveries-to-the-gaza-strip\/21\/02\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}