A meeting was also held in Cairo on Friday to discuss the mechanisms for implementing the agreement, a senior Egyptian official told the BBC.
All the necessary arrangements have been agreed, including the establishment of a joint operational cabinet to ensure compliance, which will include representatives from Egypt, Qatar, the United States, Palestine and Israel, the official said.
Egypt’s state-run Al-Qahera News TV also reported, citing a source, that they had agreed to facilitate the entry of 600 aid trucks per day during the ceasefire.
This would require a more than 14-fold increase from January’s UN daily average of 43 trucks. But Rick Pieperkorn, the World Health Organization’s representative in Gaza, said “the opportunity is very strong” if the Rafah crossing with Egypt and other crossings open.
WHO also plans to supply a number of prefabricated hospitals to support the devastated health sector. Half of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are not functioning, and the rest are only partially operational.
There has been no respite for the Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire agreement was announced on Wednesday night.
The Hamas-run Gaza Civil Defense Agency said 117 Palestinians, including 32 women and 30 children, had been killed in Israeli strikes since then.
Tamer Abu Shaaban said his young niece was killed by shrapnel while playing in the schoolyard in Gaza City, where her displaced family was hiding.
“Is this the truce they’re talking about?” he told the Reuters news agency, standing next to her body in the morgue. “What did this young lady, this child, do to deserve this?”
Israel’s military said Thursday afternoon that it had struck 50 “terrorist targets” across Gaza in the past day and had taken measures to minimize civilian casualties.
