Egypt will open a corridor on the border with the Gaza Strip for the supply of humanitarian aid. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and US President Joe Biden agreed on this, CNN reports.

Trucks with humanitarian aid will pass through the Rafah crossing. They will be met by UN representatives on the other side of the border. The agreement was confirmed by Egyptian Presidential Spokesman Ahmed Fahmy. He did not specify when the deliveries would begin.

According to Joe Biden, 20 trucks will initially cross the Gaza border, but this will happen no earlier than October 20, as the roads damaged by air strikes must first be repaired. The US President emphasized that the supply of humanitarian aid will be immediately stopped if it is delayed or confiscated by the militants of the Hamas terrorist organization. If Hamas does not interfere, humanitarian aid will start coming from Egypt on a regular basis.

For its part, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Israeli side would not interfere with humanitarian supplies from Egypt, but only on condition that this aid is implemented in the south of the Gaza Strip and does not reach Hamas militants, The Times of Israel reports.