KUWAIT: Kuwait Society for Relief (KSR) announced Monday the departure of the second medical relief team, consisting of 14 physicians and consultants from different medical and surgical fields, to Al-Arish Airport, heading to Gaza’s hospitals. In a statement to KUNA, Head of the Medical Team Dr. Ibrahim Al-Saleh confirmed that sending the Kuwaiti Relief Medical Team to the Gaza Strip came within the framework of a donation campaign launched by Kuwait Relief and is still ongoing.

The team left with six tons of basic and necessary medical supplies and equipment to help the health system in the Gaza Strip and provide medical care and medications, especially for some critical cases and chronic diseases, he added. The team will perform important surgical operations in various surgical specialties in addition to implementing a number of other relief projects, most notably food and shelter projects, Dr. Al-Saleh noted.

He praised the efforts of the official and humanitarian agencies in Kuwait, Egypt, and Palestine and their Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs. In a similar statement, Treasurer of KSR Jamal Al-Nouri said in a similar statement to KUNA that the society decided to undertake the second relief trip due to the popular support the first flight received from Kuwaiti, Gulf, and Arab people and the calls for repeating such experiences.

During the first flight, the Kuwaiti medical team managed to perform nearly 184 surgical operations, in addition to more than 1,000 medical examinations for wounded and sick people in hospitals in the Gaza Strip, Al-Nouri added. The team also signed an agreement to employ 313 Palestinian medical staff, in addition to opening a medical point that will benefit 4,000 affected people in the Gaza Strip, in addition to other food and shelter charitable projects.

Humanitarian airdrops

Meanwhile, the US Central Command (Centcom) announced that it has conducted a joint airdrop with Jordan in northern Gaza to provide relief aid to Palestinians affected by the Zionist occupation’s aggression. Centcom said in a press release late Sunday that the food provided by Jordan and four US C-130 aircraft included 25,000 meals in addition to 13,080 other food supplies. The statement added that the total number of airdrops rose to 1,110 tons so far as part of efforts to provide life-saving assistance to Palestinians in Gaza. The airdrop operations were part of the ongoing efforts to get more aid into the enclave. The US administration has repeatedly said that it wants more humanitarian aid in Gaza, but the Zionist occupation has been blocking aid from reaching the Palestinians, according to the United Nations. — KUNA