Angelina Jolie visits Egyptian side of Gaza’s Rafah crossing to meet aid volunteers
‘What needs to happen is clear: the ceasefire must hold and access must be sustained, safe and urgently scaled up,’ the actress said of Gaza
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie on Friday visited the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing into Gaza, where she spoke to members of the Red Crescent and truck drivers ferrying humanitarian aid, Agence France-Presse journalists said.
A Red Crescent volunteer told the Oscar winner that “there are thousands of aid trucks just waiting” at the border crossing.
According to local media, the actress and former special envoy for UNHCR (the UN High Commissioner for Refugees) made the visit to see the condition of injured Palestinians transferred to Egypt and to look into aid deliveries into the devastated territory.
“What needs to happen is clear: the ceasefire must hold and access must be sustained, safe and urgently scaled up so that aid, fuel and critical medical supplies can move quickly and consistently, at the volume required,” Jolie said about Gaza.
The Rafah border crossing was set to be reopened under the ceasefire in effect in Gaza since October but has so far remained closed.