2023-10-26 21:17:10
A special flight will leave on Saturday October 28 for Egypt to transport 54 tonnes of emergency humanitarian aid for the benefit of civilian populations in the Gaza Strip, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this Thursday.
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This shipment, which will be handed over to the Egyptian Red Crescent, includes emergency medical kits, medicines, hospital equipment, emergency ventilators, solar lamps, generators and tents.
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Nearly 30 tonnes of food supplements and drinking water tablets will also be delivered. “France reiterates its call for a humanitarian truce, so that aid can respond in a sustainable manner to the needs of the civilian populations in Gaza”states the press release from the Quai d’Orsay.
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While several hospitals in Gaza no longer have electricity due to the “full seat” decreed by Israel, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday during a trip to Cairo the sending of a military ship to ” sustain “.
The ” Thunder “, who left Toulon on Wednesday, must participate in relief operations for the civilian populations of the Palestinian territory. Israel imposes a land, air and sea blockade on the Gaza Strip and it was not immediately clear where this ship could be stationed.
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These ships are “amphibious helicopter carrier (PHA)” which are “capable of carrying out, at short notice, crisis management operations, transport or even medical evacuation and medical support by amphibious and aeromobile means”according to the French Ministry of the Armed Forces.
Since Saturday, humanitarian aid has been arriving in dribs and drabs in Gaza via Egypt, the only country to have an access point to Gaza that is not in the hands of Israel. Only a few dozen trucks passed, to the great dismay of the UN, which is demanding massive aid for the 2.4 million Gazans deprived of everything.
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