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- US President Joe Biden says Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has agreed to allow 20 trucks of humanitarian aid into Gaza via the Rafah crossing.
- Deliveries of much-needed assistance likely to begin on Friday, Biden says.
- Announcement comes hours after Biden visited Israel, which said it would not block aid from entering the besieged Palestinian enclave from Egypt.
- His trip to Tel Aviv comes a day after Palestinian officials said an Israeli air raid on a Gaza hospital killed at least 471 people.
- Israel blames misfired rocket launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an allegation denied by the group.
- Almost 3,480 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since Hamas’s October 7 attack inside Israel, which killed more than 1,400 people.