Medicine And Humanitarian Aid Enters Gaza As Part Of New Hamas-Israel Deal (image@ MofaQatar_EN)
With support of France, Qatar brokered a deal between Hamas and Israel, which will bring medicine and other humanitarian aid to the civilians in Gaza’s “most affected and vulnerable areas”. In exchange of which, medication will be delivered to 45 Israeli captives in Gaza. The aid is transported in to Gaza by Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
Aircraft carrying 61 tons of assistance has landed in Egypt’s El Arish City airport from Qatar on Wednesday. Earlier, head of France’s Foreign Ministry, Philippe Lalliot said that negotiations had been going on for a weeks and the initial idea about the new deal came from the families of the Israeli captives.
Qatari mediation succeeds in reaching an agreement, between Israel and Hamas to send medications and aid into Gaza#MOFAQatar pic.twitter.com/d99TcM7JT8
— Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Qatar (@MofaQatar_EN) January 16, 2024
The situation in Gaza is beyond dire as Israeli bombing on the civilians took another barbarous turn transforming the tightly packed besieged enclave in to an inferno of chaos. 85 percentage of the total population in Gaza were displaced and was chased to Egyptian border Rafah.
Hamas, the political power in Gaza has unleashed an “unprecedented” attack on Israel on October 7th, taking around 240 Israelis as captives. At least 1,139 Israeli were killed by Hamas on October 7th, as per Al Jazeera. Israeli occupation force responded with indiscriminate bombing killing more than 24,000 Palestinians, as per Palestinian authority.
UN body said, the entire population of Gaza is at the brink of famine. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian Territory said the besieged enclave is grappling with catastrophic hunger as the displaced people are “squeezed into overcrowded spaces in dire living conditions”.
