*Civic leaders in Gaza have sharply reprimanded statements from Egypt suggesting robust aid flows and medical evacuations, describing them as misleading and a distortion of the dire circumstances on the ground.

In a statement issued today (2 August 2025), the Gaza Central Emergency Committee rejected official Egyptian assertions about the daily arrival of hundreds of humanitarian trucks via Rafah as entirely detached from reality. They emphasised that municipal reports across Gaza tell a far grimmer story, aid barely scratches the surface of what over two million people desperately need.

Their statement also condemned Egyptian claims on medical evacuations as grossly exaggerated. They asserted that the evacuation process caters to only a small fraction of the wounded and chronically ill, further describing it as painfully slow, incoherent and humiliating, an affront to the dignity of those stranded under siege.

The committee said tens of thousands of critically injured individuals, including children and people with disabilities, remain trapped in catastrophic conditions unfit for historical record. They criticised Cairo’s declarations of “efforts to alleviate suffering” as thin cover for a failure to meet pressing humanitarian obligations, lack of clean water, electricity, food, functioning infrastructure, and overflowing cemeteries testify to a total breakdown.

Issuing a direct appeal to Egyptian officials, the Emergency Committee demanded an immediate and unconditional reopening of the Rafah Crossing to allow unhindered delivery of aid, medical supplies, fuel and ambulances, free of onerous and demeaning coordination protocols.

They also called for full transparency around the actual numbers of people and aid convoys entering and exiting Gaza, rejecting what they see as manufactured optics of solidarity. Instead, they urged Egypt to embrace concrete humanitarian action over empty rhetoric, fulfilling its moral and Arab duty to a besieged population.

The statement closed with a striking message: the Emergency Committee refuses to be complicit in narratives that obscure suffering. They asserted that Egypt must shift from neutral mediation towards an unequivocal and decisive moral stance in support of Gaza, expected by Palestinians and Arabs alike, as its natural and historic role in this crisis.