Last night, the Israeli mini-ministerial council, the “War Cabinet,” approved a series of decisions related to increasing and facilitating the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip, especially its northern regions.

The Cabinet agreed to allow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his Defense Minister Yoav Galant, and Minister Benny Gantz to take all necessary immediate steps to increase humanitarian aid to the population in Gaza.

A statement from Netanyahu's office said that this increased aid will prevent a humanitarian crisis and is necessary to ensure the continuation of the fighting and achieve the goals of the war.

He stated that it was decided temporarily to transfer aid to Gaza through the port of Ashdod, the Erez crossing, and across the border from several ports, and to increase Jordanian aid through the Kerem Shalom crossing.

This comes at the request of the US administration, which conveyed these demands to the Israeli government in recent days.

This came a few hours after a phone call between Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden, who was described as being very tense because of the war on Gaza, and Biden’s demand that Netanyahu stop the war, bring in aid immediately, and work to send a delegation to negotiations and expand his powers to make decisions in this regard.