Seven-time F1 world champion tours border area and logistics warehouses operated by Egyptian Red Crescent
Lewis Hamilton has visited Egypt’s Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip to meet organisations sending humanitarian aid to the territory.
The seven-time Formula 1 world champion has spoken out about conflict and humanitarian crises in the region, and has called for peace. He has frequently posted on social media about children killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and called for a ceasefire.
“I think we need to make sure we’re pushing to free Congo, free Sudan, free Syria, free Palestine. I think there’s a lot of peace that I’m hoping we get to at some stage,” Hamilton said last month.
A ceasefire agreement reached last year has halted major combat operations in Gaza, but the amount of aid getting in to the strip continues to fall far short of the agreed-upon minimum of 600 trucks a day.
Israeli forces have continued to advance, expanding their control from 53% of the territory to at least 60%, an independent commission of UN experts said last month.
Airstrikes also continue across, and Israeli fire along the advancing front has killed at least 196 Palestinians, including 18 women, 32 boys and 11 girls, the commission said.
