Nearly 300,000 families without shelter as Israel blocks entry of aid trucks into Gaza: GMO

Around 288,000 Palestinian families are without shelter as Storm Byron bears down on the Gaza Strip, the director of the enclave’s Government Media Office Ismail al-Thawabta has told Al Jazeera. Roughly 250,000 tents and mobile homes were supposed to enter Gaza, al-Thawabta said. But there are currently 6,000 trucks “loaded with aid stuck at the crossings”. “We are issuing an urgent appeal to the world, [United States] President Trump and the [United Nations] Security Council to pressure the Israeli occupation,” he added.