Protesters attempt to block humanitarian aid passing into Israel's Kerem Shalom crossing

(9 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

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Near Kerem Shalom, Israel - 9 May 2024
1. Protesters, some with Israeli flag, blocking truck with humanitarian aid
2. Protesters near trucks
3. Various of protesters blocking trucks
4. Police talking to truck driver
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Reuven Frankenburg, protester:
"These trucks are taking food to Hamas, Hamas are murderers, rapists, terrible, terrible people. We think that our government has been forced by the Americans to give them this food. The government doesn't like it, we don't like it, we're doing our best to stop them. And even if we just hold them up for a few hours, that's a few hours that Hamas won't have the food and we are happy about that, we're doing the best we can."
6. Protesters blocking trucks
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Godeles, protester:
"The government of Israel and the international support want to give a lot of supplies to the murderers to keep them fighting. There is no other place in the world that one side gives the supply to the other side, it's crazy, it's nuts."
8. Protesters in front of truck
9. Police near truck
10. Various of protesters near truck
STORYLINE:
A group of protesters, some carrying Israeli flags, gathered near the Kerem Shalom crossing and attempted to block the entrance of humanitarian aid into Gaza on Thursday.

Kerem Shalom is the main goods crossing between Israel and Gaza.

It was closed over the weekend after a Hamas rocket attack killed four Israeli soldiers nearby.

On Tuesday, an Israeli tank brigade seized the nearby Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, forcing its closure.

The Israeli military said Wednesday that it has reopened its Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza after days of closure, but the U.N. said no humanitarian aid has yet entered and there is no one to receive it on the Palestinian side after workers fled during Israel’s military incursion in the area.

The protest at the Kerem Shalom crossing was organized by the “Tzav 9” movement, who over the last few months organized protests at different crossings with the Gaza Strip, hoping to block aid into the besieged enclave.

They say blocking the aid could force Hamas to release the over 100 hostages held by the militant group since their Oct. 7 shock attack on Israel.

The two facilities are the main terminals for entry of food, medicine and other supplies essential for the survival of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million Palestinians.

AP video by Leo Correa

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