UAE sends additional 5 aid planes to Gaza

Published November 9th, 2023 - 06:53 GMT
UAE Cargo
An Emirates cargo plane is loaded with aid for the Palestinian Gaza Strip at the airport in Dubai before flying to the Egypt-Gaza border city of el-Arish, in Egypt’s north Sinai Peninsula on October 17, 2023. (Photo by Karim SAHIB / AFP)

ALBAWABA - According to WAM News Agency, the UAE has sent a further five planes carrying supplies and equipment to support the construction of a field hospital in the Gaza Strip, bringing to 16 the total number of aircraft sent as part of the UAE's Gallant Knight 3 humanitarian operation.

The UAE field hospital will be installed and run when the cargo of these aircraft is unloaded in the Egyptian city of El Arish, where all the supplies, tools, and equipment required will be assembled.

The UAE has launched an air bridge over the past two days to transport the hospital's equipment as part of the UAE's Gallant Knight 3 humanitarian operation in line with the country's efforts to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people and support the health system in the Gaza Strip, which is facing exceptional and critical circumstances, WAM reported. 

In Jordan, the Minister of Government Communication Muhannad Mubayyidin said that Jordan is preparing a fourth aid plane to depart for Cairo en route to go through the Rafah crossing to besieged Gaza.

Jordanian aid plane was set to take off at 10:30 a.m. across the King Hussein Bridge towards the occupied West Bank, he added in a statement to AlMamlaka TV Thursday.

"Jordanian aid to Gaza will not stop," the  Minister of Government Communication confirmed.

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