On the road with the truck drivers carrying aid to Gaza

BBC special correspondent Fergal Keane has travelled with a convoy carrying aid towards Gaza.

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First the convoy must go through Israeli customs at the King Hussein/Allenby Bridge border crossing. Then it is on to the Erez crossing into Gaza where the aid will be transferred to local drivers from the World Food Programme.

Mustafa is heading towards a place where Israeli settlers have blocked roads and where, inside the war zone itself, criminal gangs hijack aid trucks. But on this sunny winter morning, the driver is happy.

"We are carrying aid like food and medication for our brothers in Gaza," he says.

The word "brothers" comes up repeatedly in his answers. He is not referring only to a shared humanity, or Arab brotherhood, but the fact so many Jordanians have Palestinian roots.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k5588r7vdo

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