Qatar News Agency reported that a plane arrived on Monday carrying the fifth batch of wounded Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with the aim of treating them, in coordination with the authorities in Egypt.
This Qatari step comes within the initiative of the Emir of the State of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, to treat 1,500 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Doha stressed that this initiative comes within the framework of the State of Qatar’s steadfast support for the Palestinian people, especially during the difficult humanitarian conditions they are currently exposed to.
The first batch of wounded arrived on the fourth of December, and – at the time – Minister of State for International Cooperation at the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lulwa Al Khater, said that the Emir of the State of Qatar directed the treatment of 1,500 Palestinians injured as a result of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, in addition to sponsoring 3,000 of them. Children who lost their parents in the Strip.
Qatar also evacuated 89 Palestinians holding Qatari residency from the Gaza Strip, via the city of Al-Arish, via a Qatari Armed Forces plane, in coordination with the Egyptian government.
Since the seventh of last October, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, which, as of Monday, has left 20,674 dead, 54,536 wounded, most of them children and women, massive destruction of infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, according to the Gaza Strip authorities and the United Nations. United.