First Kuwaiti medical team enters Gaza
GAZA: A Kuwaiti medical team entered the Gaza Strip Friday through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt to help their Palestinian peers treat victims of the ongoing Zionist aggression. Several Gaza health officials welcomed the Kuwaiti team, the first since the start of the war on Oct 7, 2023, at the Palestinian side of the crossing. The officials underscored the importance of the Kuwaiti team visit and its desperately-needed efforts to alleviate the suffering of Gaza’s people, particularly after the collapse of the health system in the besieged Strip.
Head of the KRCS Operations Sector and the Kuwaiti medical team Dr Musaad Al-Enezi told KUNA that the team will carry out several surgeries on Palestinian patients in the Strip. He pointed out that the KRCS also brought in medical equipment, tools and medicine to be used in the treatment of the Palestinian people and to back the health system there.
The medical team will perform surgeries at the European Hospital and the Kuwait Specialized Hospital in Rafah in south of the Gaza Strip, Dr Enezi said. He added Kuwaiti relief aid will also be distributed to displaced people in makeshift shelters and refugee camps. The team will also supervise the establishment of a KRCS field hospital in the Strip, Dr Enezi revealed. He indicated that this move comes as part of the KRCS’ efforts to aid Palestinian people, who face the inhuman war machine of the Zionist occupation forces.
He noted that KRCS has also delivered 46 planeloads of relief and humanitarian aid to Gaza through the Kuwait air bridge. The Kuwaiti medical team includes four consultants: Orthopedic Surgeon Consultant Dr Hussein Qwaiyan, Urology Consultant Dr Faisal Al-Hajri, Anesthesia Consultant Dr Muhammad Shamsah and Surgery Consultant Dr Muhammad Haider, along with Administrative Coordinator Abdulrahman Al-Saleh.
Meanwhile, Kuwait’s Permanent Representative to the UN and Other International Organizations Nasser Al-Hayen on Friday denounced the systematic destruction by Zionist occupying forces of places of worship in Gaza. Addressing a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) panel discussion on countering religious hatred, in the presence of UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk, the Kuwaiti diplomat said this Zionist occupation action is clear-cut proof of systematic racism, continued suppression and bloody destruction against Palestinian civilians.