Gaza border crossing set to reopen as Israeli troops prepare ground assault

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : We’re putting in place with the United Nations, with Egypt, with Israel, with others, a mechanism by which to get the assistance in and to get it to people who need it," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday.
57% : She covers the U.S. State Department, regularly traveling with U.S. Secretary of State.
46% : the Zionist aggressions do not stop, the hands of all parties in the region are on the trigger," said Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, adding that Tehran could not simply stay an observer.[1/5]Smoke rises in the air following Israeli bombings in Gaza, as seen from Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel October 15, 2023.
45% : UN relief operations in Gaza "are on the verge of collapse," said Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner general of the UN agency for the Palestinians, UNRWA."The number of people seeking shelter in our schools and other UNRWA facilities in the south is absolutely overwhelming, and we do not have any more the capacity to deal with them," he said.(This story has been refiled to remove extra words from paragraph 1)Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk, Hatem Maher, Ahmed Tolba and Omar Abdel-Razek in Cairo, Nandita Bose, Rami Ayyub and Katharine Jackson in Washington, Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza, Ari Rabinovitch, Dan Williams, Henriette Chacar, Dedi Hayun, Maayan Lubell, Emily Rose, James Mackenzie and John Davison in Jerusalem, Parisa Hafezi in Dubai, Michelle Nichols at the United Nations; Writing by Simon Lewis; Editing by Lisa ShumakerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
34% : Iran, which backs both Hamas and Hezbollah, warned Israel of escalation if it kept attacking Palestinians.

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