KRCS distributes food packages to displaced Palestinians
GAZA, March 10, (KUNA): Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) distributed on Sunday food packages for hundreds of displaced Palestinians in the city of Rafah, South of the Gaza Strip on the occasion of the approaching of Ramadan.
KRCS started the distribution process in cooperation with the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), which helped brief the Kuwaiti institute about 1.5 million displaced Palestinians living in tents and in dire humanitarian conditions due to the continuation of the Israeli occupation aggression for the sixth month in a row.
Head of the KRCS Operations Sector and the Kuwaiti medical team Dr. Musaad Al-Enezi told KUNA that this campaign comes upon the directives of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and his keenness on humanity and Philanthropy.
Al-Enizi said that the campaign coincides with the approaching holy month of Ramadan, and the distributed food packages include basic nutritional supplies and flour.
He pointed out that the Kuwaiti team is divided into three groups, one team performing medical operations in Gaza’s European Hospital, one in Kuwait Specialized Hospital, and one relief team in the camps area.
He expressed his hopes in increasing the amount of aid and relief campaigns in coordination with the concerned parties to help ease the “difficult situation” of the displaced Palestinians.
Hundreds of displaced Palestinians expressed appreciation to Kuwait’s leadership, government and people for constantly sending aid and relief since the October 7 war on Gaza.
On Saturday, a medical team from Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) had entered Gaza and performed some critical surgeries for Palestinians injured at a number of hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
On Saturday, a team from Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) has embarked on performing some critical surgeries for Palestinians injured at a number of hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
Speaking to KUNA in a statement on Saturday, team member Dr. Mohammad Haidar said they initiated their mission with performing some surgeries at Gaza European Hospital and Kuwait Specialized Hospital, in cooperation with health authorities in the Strip.
Haider, a surgery consultant, added that the number of those injured is large, and they need more efforts from all medical teams coming from all over the world to the Strip.
Meanwhile, head of surgery department at Gaza European Hospital, Dr. Emad Al-Hout said the Kuwaiti team provided psychological support to all doctors working in the Strip, noting that Kuwait’s doctors performed some pancreas and heart surgeries.
He thanked His Highness the Amir, the Kuwaiti government and people for their support to Palestinians, hoping for more medical support.
The Kuwaiti medical team includes four consultants: Orthopedic Surgeon Consultant Dr. Hussein Qwaian, Urology Consultant Dr. Faisal Al-Hajri, Anesthesia Consultant Dr. Mohammad Shamsah, Surgery Consultant Dr. Mohammad Haider, and Administrative Coordinator Abdurrahman Al-Saleh.
The team arrived Thursday in Egypt’s City of Al-Arish, north of Sinai, by a Kuwait Air Force plane loaded with food supplies and urgent medical relief.
In other news, the Egyptian Army on Sunday continued airdrops of humanitarian and relief aid in the Gaza Strip in collaboration with the global coalition.
The army’s spokesperson Col. Abdulhafedh Ghareeb said in a statement that the continuation of providing support to relief the Palestinians who lack of basic needs came per President Abdulfattah Al-Sisi’s directives.
He added that the Egyptian air force in collaboration with Jordan and other countries carried out a number of trips with the global coalition to drop urgent humanitarian and relief assistance on the affected areas in the Northern Gaza strip.
A number of military aircraft, including from Egypt and UAE, have took off from AlArish Airport loaded large quantities of food supply and urgent relief material and dropped them on north of the Strip, he noted.
Col. Ghareeb affirmed that this comes as a part of Egypt’s active role in supporting regional and international efforts of providing humanitarian and relief aid to the affected Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Egyptian President Abdelfattah El-Sisi has assured that Cairo is making every possible effort to safeguard and assist the Palestinians by actively working towards implementing a cease-fire in Gaza and delivering essential aid supplies.
In a statement marking “the martyr’s day,” on Saturday president El-Sisi saluted the stead-fast Palestinian people on Palestine’s soil. “Your plight is our plight and your pain is our pain,” he said.
The world, since months ago has been witnessing a great tragedy in the neighboring dear Palestine,” where thousands of martyrs have been falling in the Gaza Strip, El-Sisi said.
Egypt will continue its bid to enforce a cease-fire, dispatch aid supplies and relieve the afflicted from this colossal catastrophe, he said, re-affirming that Cairo would do everything possible to enable the Palestinian people attain their legitimate right to establish an independent state.