00:05On your way to the Rafah border, you cannot but notice the long queues of...
00:10...aid trucks parked along as drivers wait for the green light to enter Gaza.
00:14I'm carrying...
00:19...medicine, important medicine.
00:21My cargo was denied by Israel 21 times for 50...
00:24...and for 15 months I went to the border and they turned me back.
00:27Angwa is desperate to receive it.
00:29This medicine came from other countries by plane.
00:32I brought it from Cairo airport and it's been lying here...
00:34...for nearly two years.
00:35...and claims that Israeli authorities...
00:39...are intentionally preventing them from saving lives.
00:43One time they rejected the medicine...
00:48...because the truck's wooden pallets were scratched.
00:50The other time they said my truck is 180...
00:53...and should be 5 centimeters shorter, just excuses.
00:58They unload the medicine, they break a lot of it while searching...
01:01...then they load it back and tell me it's rejected.
01:03...successful delivery to Gaza after many weeks of delays.
01:08I deliver food, tents and blankets.
01:13The truck is searched twice at the border...
01:15...unloaded on the Palestinian side and I return.
01:18Some food became spoiled due to the delay but the rest was fine.
01:21Currently an average of a...
01:23208 trucks enter Gaza daily...
01:26...a big drop from the 600...
01:28...trucks entering each day before the war on Gaza...
01:31...that has killed over 70...
01:33...thousand Palestinians so far.
01:35The reopening of the Rafah border for the first time in...
01:38...two years has been widely welcomed...
01:40...even if only for pedestrian traffic...
01:43...for now.
01:44I wish the Rafah border crossing will open indefinitely...
01:48...and we can deliver aid all the time like before the war.
01:51I've been here since 2020...
01:53...I want peace for our brothers in Gaza...
01:55...they are suffering.
01:56So they wait...
01:58...living in their trucks where they eat and sleep...
02:01...staying put until the next...
02:03...they're allowed to make another life-saving trip...
02:06...into the war destroyed.
02:08...enclave only a few kilometers away.
02:11Yes, Hakeem for CGTN...
02:13...at a large city near the Rafah border, Egypt.
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