Delivering the goods

The New York Times reports on how aid for Gaza is, and isn't getting through.

Apparently medical supplies go straight into Gaza through Egypt’s crossing at Rafah. But food supplies are routed through Israel first - and that's where there's a bottleneck, which seems to be the need to search everything.

"The Egyptians tried to send through trucks carrying bags of flour and sugar, for example, only to have the Israelis send them back. Much has been repacked and reshipped, but some of the returned items are spilled out over the sandy earth at the crossing"

“The trucks get to Auja and they sit,” said Ahmed Oraby, head of the Red Crescent office in El Arish. “Many trucks that left are now coming back. They don’t take anything.”