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5 days ago
- Arab News
Egypt sends 2,300 tonnes of humanitarian relief to Gaza
LONDON: The Egyptian Red Crescent has sent an aid convoy to Gaza to assist the 2 million Palestinians in the enclave. Aid trucks delivered 2,300 tonnes of humanitarian relief to Gaza, including 2,200 food baskets, flour and medicines. The effort is part of 'Zad Al-Izza: From Egypt to Gaza,' an initiative launched on July 27 which also delivered flour, baby milk, medical and therapeutic medicines, personal care supplies and large quantities of fuel. The trucks entered the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Abu Salem crossing, located at the southesternmost point of the territory. The crossing is controlled by Israel. The Egyptian Red Crescent said that the Rafah crossing, controlled by Egypt on its side of the border, remains operational, with more than 36,000 trucks delivering about half a million tonnes of humanitarian aid, supported by 35,000 volunteers since the conflict began. In May 2024, Israeli forces launched a military attack on Rafah, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying the Rafah crossing terminal. Israeli forces have only allowed minimal aid to enter Gaza through Rafah since the beginning of the war in 2023.
Arab News
06-08-2025
- Arab News
Terrible thirst hits Gaza with polluted aquifers and broken pipelines
GAZA/CAIRO: Weakened by hunger, many Gazans trek across a ruined landscape each day to haul all their drinking and washing water — a painful load that is still far below the levels needed to keep people as global attention has turned to starvation in Gaza, where after 22 months of a devastating Israeli military campaign a global hunger monitor says a famine scenario is unfolding, the water crisis is just as severe according to aid some water comes from small desalination units run by aid agencies, most is drawn from wells in a brackish aquifer that has been further polluted by sewage and chemicals seeping through the rubble, spreading diarrhea and pipelines that once supplied Gaza with much of its clean water are now dry. Israel stopped all water and electricity supply to Gaza early in the war. Although it resumed some supply later, pipelines were damaged and Gaza water officials say none has entered the Israeli military aid coordination agency, did not respond to a request for comment on whether Israel is supplying water and sanitation infrastructure has been destroyed and pumps from the aquifer often rely on electricity from small generators — for which fuel is rarely Mukhaimar, aged 23 and a university student before the war, said he has to walk about a kilometer, queuing for two hours, to fetch water. He often goes three times a day, dragging it back to the family tent over bumpy ground on a small metal handcart.'How long will we have to stay like this?' he asked, pulling two larger canisters of very brackish water to use for cleaning and two smaller ones of cleaner water to mother, Umm Moaz, 53, said the water he collects is needed for the extended family of 20 people living in their small group of tents in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.'The children keep coming and going and it is hot. They keep wanting to drink. Who knows if tomorrow we will be able to fill up again,' she struggle for water is replicated across the tiny, crowded territory where nearly everybody is living in temporary shelters or tents without sewage or hygiene facilities and not enough water to drink, cook and wash as disease United Nations says the minimum emergency level of water consumption per person is 15 liters a day for drinking, cooking, cleaning and washing. Average daily consumption in Israel is around 247 liters a day according to Israeli rights group B' Khalidi, humanitarian policy lead for aid agency Oxfam in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories said the average consumption in Gaza now was 3-5 liters a said last week that preventable and treatable water-borne diseases were 'ripping through Gaza,' with reported rates increasing by almost 150 percent over the past three blames Hamas for the suffering in Gaza and says it provides adequate aid for the territory's 2.3 million FOR WATER'Water scarcity is definitely increasing very much each day and people are basically rationing between either they want to use water for drinking or they want to use a lot for hygiene,' said Danish Malik, a global water and sanitation official for the Norwegian Refugee queuing for water and carrying it now accounts for hours each day for many Gazans, often involving jostling with others for a place in the queue. Scuffles have sometimes broken out, Gazans water is often the job of children as their parents seek out food or other necessities.'The children have lost their childhood and become carriers of plastic containers, running behind water vehicles or going far into remote areas to fill them for their families,' said Munther Salem, water resources head at the Gaza Water and Environment Quality water so hard to get, many people living near the beach wash in the sea.A new water pipeline funded by the United Arab Emirates is planned, to serve 600,000 people in southern Gaza from a desalination plant in Egypt. But it could take several more weeks to be more is needed, aid agencies say. UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said the long-term deprivations were becoming deadly. 'Starvation and dehydration are no longer side effects of this conflict. They are very much frontline effects.'Oxfam's Khalidi said a ceasefire and unfettered access for aid agencies was needed to resolve the crisis.'Otherwise we will see people dying from the most preventable diseases in Gaza — which is already happening before our eyes.'
Leaders
03-08-2025
- Leaders
Belgium Air Force Airdrops Humanitarian Aid over Gaza
Belgium's Air Force carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian aid into Gaza on Sunday, in coordination with Jordan, according to a statement by Belgium's Defense Ministry. Just days earlier, Belgium revealed its participation in a multi-country operation led by Jordan to airdrop aid into the Palestinian enclave, amid mounting warnings from the UN agencies that Gaza is on the brink of famine. The ministry announced that its aircraft would carry medical supplies and food valued at approximately 600,000 euros ($690,000). They will remain on standby to carry out additional airdrops in coordination with Jordanian authorities. European Countries Join Relief Efforts On Friday, Spain announced it had airlifted 12 tons of food into Gaza amid a worsening humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, according to AFP. Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares revealed that the operation included the deployment of 24 parachutes, each carrying 500 kilos (1,100 pounds) of food—enough to feed 11,000 people. France also began airdropping 40 tons of humanitarian aid to Gaza on Friday and urged Israel to allow full access to the area amid a worsening starvation crisis, according to Reuters. 'Faced with the absolute urgency, we have just conducted a food airdrop operation in Gaza. Thank you to our Jordanian, Emirati, and German partners for their support, and to our military personnel for their commitment,' President Emmanuel Macron wrote on social media platform X. Last week, the Royal Jordanian Air Force and UAE Air Force C-130 aircraft successfully carried out three humanitarian airdrops full of food and basic necessities amid the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. Dozens of Gazans including children have lost their souls due to malnutrition throughout the 21 months of war, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Related Topics: Spain Airdrops 12 Tons of Food Aid into Famine-Hit Gaza Aid Entering Gaza Remains 'Very Insufficient': Germany UAE, Jordan Airlift Humanitarian Airdrops over Gaza amid Starvation Crisis Short link : Post Views: 9
