The Diplomat
The Government of Spain, through the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), has made a new shipment of humanitarian material destined for the Gaza Strip in coordination with the Directorate General for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid of the European Union (ECHO).
The shipment consists of 4.4 tons of medicines, medical supplies and essential equipment to meet the needs of some 40,000 people for three months, including medical supplies for trauma care. This is the third shipment of humanitarian material made by AECID since the beginning of the conflict in October 2023.
The Spanish shipment arrived last December 28 from Spain at the Egyptian airport of El Arish, according to a press release from AECID. The material was transported to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing and delivered to the Palestinian Red Crescent for distribution, all under the coordination of ECHO.
The material provided by Spain was part of the humanitarian aid shipment coordinated by the EU, which includes contributions from Greece, Luxembourg, Portugal and the Slovak Republic, as well as from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
This brings to three the number of shipments made to date by the Government of Spain, through the AECID, aimed at alleviating, mainly, the lack of medical supplies for the Palestinian population resulting from the conflict that began last October.
At the end of November 2023, Spain provided medical supplies to Egyptian hospitals treating patients evacuated from the Gaza Strip. Shortly afterwards, on December 7, a Spanish shipment arrived in Egypt with more than one ton of humanitarian material destined for the Gaza Strip to treat some 10,000 people.
