On Thursday morning, a dozen vehicles will leave Tel Aviv for Gaza to deliver food and other emergency supplies to people suffering crisis on the other side.
The convoy is led by Stand Together, Israel’s largest Jewish-Arab peace initiative, which announced plans on Wednesday.
“You won’t go hungry. Join our aid convoy as we work to reach Gaza,” co-director Aaron Lee Green posted on social media.
The organization has since reported receiving an influx of donations from across the country and is calling for volunteers to help load vehicles Thursday morning.
Activists will try to enter Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing linking the enclave with southern Israel – aid groups report aid trucks are on the way there not allowed to pass – said Stand Together spokesman Andrew Eitan Dittus.
“We expect there will be some level of confrontation, but we don’t know exactly what that will look like,” he told reporters. I. “We hope the government understands that it is not in its interest to block aid.”
While activists expect soldiers to oppose them, right-wing settlers can gain access briefly Went to the Enclave last week.
Eitan Ditus said he believed the Israeli government was “feeling the pressure” after residents near aid trucks were killed last week, photos of starving children circulated online and criticism of Israel grew from foreign allies. .
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris last week called the situation in Gaza a “humanitarian disaster” and the White House took the rare step of airdropping aid into the Gaza enclave.
“Stand Together” aims to build pressure within Israel, organizing a series of protests calling for a ceasefire and allowing aid to be delivered.Such Protests banned during the first months of the war.
“We are one of the loudest voices supporting Jewish-Palestinian coexistence, and that is a huge responsibility,” Mr. Deters said. “We do feel that and we are doing our best to deal with the situation.”
The group is expected to face another obstacle beyond the military, the anti-aid movement, which has established a presence in Kerem Shalom and is calling for a halt to shipments, which the group believes is strengthening Hamas.
“We would definitely like them to be there,” the spokesman said.
Anti-aid activists were aware of the convoy’s existence.A spokesman for one of the organizations told I Will attend the Kerem Shalom meeting on Thursday.
An IDF spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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