Itongadol/AJN.- Gas, water pumps provided to Strip at appeal of UN to Coordinator of Activities in the Territories.
Israel on Friday decided to open the Kerem Shalom Border Crossing with Gaza to transfer aid supplies to the coastal enclave amid harsh weather conditions hitting the region.
At the request of the UN to the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Maj.-Gen.Eitan Dangot, Israel implemented the transfer of gas for heating and water pumps to the Strip facing heavy flood from sever winter storms.
"Israel will do everything that is necessary to assist the civilian populations in Gaza and in Judea and Samaria, with an emphasis on providing electricity to the power plant in Gaza," the army said on its website.
A joint Israeli-Palestinian situation room was also opened to help distressed civilians in the West Bank with transportation and electricity concerns.
Flooding forced hundreds of Palestinian families to evacuate their homes in Gaza as the enclave faced a state of "extreme emergency" due to the weather, Palestinian news agency Ma\’an reported Friday.
According to Ma\’an, the sever weather conditions also left about 60 percent of Palestinian homes in the West Bank without power on Friday.