The Diplomat
The Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID) has made this week a second shipment of humanitarian material destined for the Gaza Strip under the coordination of the Directorate General for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid of the European Union (ECHO).
The material is part of the humanitarian aid shipment coordinated by the EU and includes contributions from Belgium, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the NGO Oxfam.
The Spanish shipment, weighing one and a half tons, consists of a health kit for emergency situations that includes medicines, medical supplies and essential equipment to care for some 10,000 people for three months. It is completed by five additional health kits to assist the pediatric population.
The shipment arrived last Tuesday from Spain at the Egyptian airport of El Arish for transport to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing and to be delivered to the Palestinian Red Crescent for distribution, all under the coordination of the Directorate General for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid of the European Union (ECHO).
This aid comes on top of the November 29th shipment of medical supplies to Egyptian hospitals treating wounded people from the Strip. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 430 wounded and 530 sick Palestinians have been evacuated to Egyptian hospitals since the outbreak of hostilities.
