ShareKUWAIT: Kuwait’s 12th relief planeload departed on Saturday morning on its way to Al-Arish Airport in Egypt. The plane is carrying onboard two ambulances, taking total of ambulances previously delivered to 12, six of which are designated for intensive care.
This was organized by Kuwait Society for Relief in cooperation with 22 other societies’ as part of a wider campaign directing humanitarian aid to Gaza. Kuwait Society for Relief Vice President and Campaign Supervisor, Omar Al-Thuwaini stated to KUNA that the coordination and cooperation between state bodies and charity societies expedited the process and facilitated the swift delivery of aid to Palestinians in Gaza Strip. Al-Thuwaini further explained that needed assessment is made by designated bodies within Palestine, and added that this is the society’s fifth planeload carrying 15 tons of foodstuff and 55 tons of medical necessities.
The Relief Society works in coordination with Egyptian Red Crescent Society and its Palestinian Counterpart, as well as certified Palestinian societies, mentioned Al-Thuwaini. Chief of the Relief and Projects Department at the Society, Mahmoud Al-Musbah, told KUNA that since the early hours of Zionist entity’s aggression on Gaza, the Society rushed to coordinate efforts and deliver humanitarian aid to the Palestinians.
Kuwaiti humanitarian air bridge, consisting of relief planeloads carrying urgent supplies and medical necessities to Gaza Strip through Al-Arish area in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, was launched on October 23. Overseeing the initiative are Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense, the Air Force, Health Ministry, and contributing to it are Kuwait Red Crescent Society, Kuwait Relief Society and other humanitarian establishments.
Zionist occupation has been committing atrocious crimes and launching violent attacks on Gaza Strip since October 7, killing thousands and injuring tens of thousands.
Meanwhile, the second batch of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) has arrived in the Gaza Strip as part of Kuwait’s recently launched air bridge carrying humanitarian and relief aid to Gazans. The Gulf country’s second batch contains medicine and medical supplies, Chief of KRCS Voluntary Teams Ahmad Abu Daya said in a statement to KUNA.
Meanwhile, Secretary General of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) Maha Al-Barjas called on the world to end the ongoing war and the Zionist entity’s massacres of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In a joint news conference on signing a cooperation protocol with Egyptian Red Crescent Society, Al-Barjas warned of an imminent humanitarian disaster in the Strip due to the Zionist occupation’s blockade. She noted that most hospitals in the besieged Strip are running out of fuel, and that surgical operations are performed without anesthesia. She pointed out that Gaza population needs more medicines and medical supplies than food, explaining that bakeries in the Strip will also stop working due to the lack of fuel.
Al-Barjas appealed to international organizations to oblige the occupying power to let fuel enter Gaza in order to operate hospitals and bakeries to avoid a major humanitarian disaster. Al-Barjas called on all countries over the world to stop the heinous crimes committed by the Zionist occupation forces against the people of Gaza, noting that the Zionist entity violated the international law and the international humanitarian law. She said the protocol is a continuation of cooperation between Egypt and Kuwait represented in their Red Crescent societies to face urgent humanitarian needs and difficult conditions of the Gazans.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s Minister of Social Solidarity Nevin Al-Qabaj said Kuwait has a key role during different crises, including the earthquake of Turkey and Syria, and Libya’s floods as well as what is going on in Gaza. The protocol is to extend cooperation bridges between Egypt and Kuwait with the aim of entering relief humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, she said.
She said that the Egyptian Red Crescent Society is in constant cooperation with the Palestine Red Crescent Society to provide all relief humanitarian aid arrived at Al-Arish from all countries to deliver it to the Gazans through Rafah border crossing. For his part, Kuwait’s Ambassador to Egypt and Permanent Delegate to the Arab League Ghanim Al-Ghanim expressed Kuwait’s full readiness to provide aid to the Gazans, referring to the Kuwaiti relief air bridge to help them. He thanked Egypt’s authorities for facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid to the residents of Gaza. He pointed to the strong and deep-rooted ties between the two countries, pointing to Kuwait’s appreciation to Egypt, under the wise leadership of the leaderships of the two countries. — KUNA
