Transportation of relief aid to Palestinian people continues
AMMAN, June 10, (KUNA): The Kuwait Relief Society confirmed Thursday the continuation of the transportation of relief aid to the Palestinian people via the air bridge within the framework of the popular campaign ‘Fazaa Al-Aqsa’ in which 33 Kuwaiti charities participate.
This came during a reception by the Ambassador of the State of Kuwait to Jordan, Aziz Al-Daihani, for a delegation of the Kuwaiti Relief Society in Amman.
Member of the Board of Directors and Head of the Relief Committee of the Society, Jamal Al-Nouri, told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the aid that arrived Wednesday, via the Kuwaiti Air Force plane, comes at the forefront of relief aid convoys for the Palestinian brothers. Al-Nouri added that the next stage will witness the arrival of additional shipments, including food relief materials, medical supplies and infant formula, intended mainly for those affected by the recent attacks by the Israeli occupation authorities on those stationed in Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip in the occupied territories.
He stated that the association’s delegation visited today the headquarters of the warehouses of the Jordanian Hashemite Charitable Organization, which is concerned with transporting the aid shipment by land in order to see the progress of work in preparation for the management of relief materials to the occupied lands.
He expressed hope that the relief aid campaign would be a support factor for the humanitarian situation in Palestine, stressing the keenness of the Kuwaiti civil and official institutions to secure the needs of the people in Palestine and to continue with them until the brotherly Palestinian people regain their legitimate rights.
For his part, Ambassador Al-Daihani saluted the humanitarian initiatives of the Kuwaiti people which was translated by the popular aid campaign launched last May under the auspices of the Kuwaiti Ministries of Social Affairs, Community Development and Foreign Affairs.
He stressed the keenness that he and all members of the Kuwaiti embassy attach to facilitating the procedures for receiving and delivering relief materials and documenting them before and after they reach their beneficiaries in the occupied territories.
He said that the meeting with the association’s delegation Thursday comes to complete the coordination and follow-up procedures to ensure the success of the Kuwaiti popular campaign and the delivery of aid to the beneficiaries as soon as possible, pointing out that “this charitable work is consistent with Kuwait’s foreign policy and will remain registered in the nation’s memory.”
For his part, the Director-General of the Society, Abdulaziz Al-Obeid, told KUNA that the 40-ton shipment of aid, divided into 30 tons of food and infant formula, will reach the beneficiaries in the Gaza Strip through partner field associations, while 10 tons of medical materials will arrive at Al-Makassed Hospital.
In Jerusalem, in response to the hospital’s request to make up for the shortage of medical supplies Al-Obeid praised the diligent follow-up of the Kuwaiti embassy in Jordan to the procedures for receiving relief materials in cooperation and coordination with the Jordanian authorities, especially its supervision of the financial transfers process, which contributed to receiving aid in the appropriate time and form.
He praised the Jordanian efforts represented by the Jordanian Hashemite Charitable Organization to receive the aid convoy and direct it to the occupied territories to reach the associations accredited to the Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs system.