Demonstrators against the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza from the Tzav 9 (Order 9) movement blocked the Kerem Shalom crossing for trucks once again. One woman, the mother of an IDF soldier who was killed in Gaza two months ago told police that her son, "fell for this country, leaving a young wife and baby, so that other children could play in peace."
After aid was dropped by several countries, including the US and Jordan, into the Gaza Strip, attempts to provide more aid with the help of Israeli trucks continue.
Demonstrators against helping Gazan civilians (a vast majority of the supplies are stolen by Hamas and other armed gangs before reaching its destination) until a clear victory in the war and the return of Israeli hostages arrived at the Kerem Shalom crossing and blocked the movement of trucks into Gaza.
Despite the reinforcement of forces in the area and barriers deployed to prevent protesters from reaching the crossing, they still managed to arrive and blocked the entrance to the trucks.
Tzurit Penigstein, mother of the Major Maoz Penigstein, (H"YD) who was killed while fighting in Gaza, arrived at the crossing and blocked the entrance with her body: "On the one hand, we send our soldiers to fight and my son to die, and on the other, we pamper them, feed them, and prolong the war - and the price we pay is the blood of our children," she pleaded with police at the site.