Israel says will implement humanitarian corridors, pauses in Gaza starting Sunday

CAIRO – 26 July 2025: The Israeli authorities announced that they will start airdrops of aid from Saturday night in Gaza and establish humanitarian corridors for United Nations convoys starting Sunday morning, according to Israeli reports.

The Israeli army stated that they are ready to implement humanitarian pauses within densely populated areas. The Israeli foreign ministry said humanitarian pauses will also take place starting Sunday morning to allow aid deliveries. 

The Israeli army has not announced the location of the humanitarian corridors or the areas across the enclave where the pauses will apply.

The Israeli announcements come amid reports of starvation deaths in Gaza, including dozens of children.

Sources told Egypt’s Al Qahera News on Saturday night that the Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) will launch a humanitarian campaign to support the Palestinian people in Gaza starting Sunday morning.

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.

Israel is placing heavy restrictions on aid and killing aid seekers near distribution sites of the Israeli and US backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

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.

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.

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.

The Gazan health ministry has called the GHF distribution sites “death traps” with the UN estimating that more than 1,000 starving Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli forces, the majority of whom were killed near these sites.

The ministry has 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.”