Egyptian Red Crescent to start Gaza humanitarian campaign on Sunday: Report

CAIRO – 26 July 2025: The Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) will launch a humanitarian campaign to support the Palestinian people in Gaza starting Sunday, sources told Al Qahera News.

The sources underlined ongoing Egyptian and Qatari efforts to increase humanitarian aid bound for Gaza, utilizing multiple crossings.

They reported that a humanitarian aid bridge to Gaza will include flour and other food supplies, besides medical necessities.

The reports come while the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that a quarter of the population in Gaza is facing famine-like conditions, with Israel placing heavy restriction on aid entry.

A total of 127 people, including 85 children, have lost their lives to starvation and malnutrition, according to the enclave’s health ministry on Saturday.

Meanwhile, indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas are facing a new setback after Israel and the US withdrew their negotiating teams after the latest response by the Palestinian movement on a 60-day ceasefire proposal, communicated by mediators Egypt and Qatar.

Israel and the US threatened to resort to “alternative” options to bring captives back home and US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he believes Hamas does not want to reach a truce deal and that the movement’s leaders will now be "hunted down."

Hamas said they are surprised by the recent US-Israeli stance, asserting that the movement dealt positively during the talks and is committing to reaching a negotiated ceasefire deal to end the war.

Escalating Hunger

More than 100 aid organizations on Wednesday warned about the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza , stating that "mass starvation" is spreading and that their own colleagues are suffering from severe shortages.

In a statement, the signatories, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and Save the Children, stated that "our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away."

They emphasized that aid workers themselves are now joining food lines, risking their lives to feed their families.

The organizations are calling for an immediate negotiated ceasefire, the opening of all land crossings, and the unrestricted flow of aid through UN-led mechanisms.

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Commissioner-General of the UN releif agency UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini has called for allowing unrestricted and uninterrupted humanitarian assistance to Gaza, noting that they have the equivalent of 6,000 trucks loaded with food and medical supplies in both Egypt and Jordan.

'Death Traps'

Israel had blocked aid deliveries to Gaza for nearly three months since shattering a ceasefire with Hamas in March, before being forced to resume them in May under heavy global pressure, including from its closest allies in the West.

Israel resumed the aid mainly through the controversial Israeli and US backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) at a few fixed points across the enclave. At these sites, more than 1,000 starving Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli forces.

The health ministry in Gaza has called these points “death traps” and accused the Israeli occupation and the GHF of “deliberately committing massacres against the starving in a systematic manner using various methods.”

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday stated that the food deliveries currently are intermittent and “remain far below what is needed for the survival of the population.”

“Parents tell us their children cry themselves to sleep from hunger.”