Today, two of Anera’s staff in Gaza, Sami Matar and Ahmad El-Najjar, described some impressions of conditions there now.
It took Sami, our program manager, three hours today to travel from the Anera office in Gaza City to Mawasi, Khan Younis. Pre-war, the journey took about 30 minutes.
Salah Al Din Road, the primary artery linking the north and south, is now a two-lane, unpaved road prone to stoppages and chaos when vehicles break down. The bottlenecks become especially acute when approaching the checkpoint crossing between the north and south. Now that permissions to travel have eased, people and vehicles are moving in large numbers through a small space. Humanitarian agencies like the International Committee of the Red Cross, the World Food Programme and Anera navigate the same road with their freight trucks as families.
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