India's humanitarian aid for Gaza arrived in Egypt on Sunday, the Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Adrindam Bagchi, shared in a post on X. The materials were handed over to the Egyptian Red Crescent and will be sent forward from there.
🇮🇳’s humanitarian aid for the people of Palestine arrives in Egypt.Amb @indembcairo @AjitVGupte handed over the relief material to Egyptian Red Crescent for onward transmission to Palestine. pic.twitter.com/mSn5RKoK5L
— Arindam Bagchi (@MEAIndia) October 22, 2023
Posting on social media, the MEA spokesperson announced that India's humanitarian aid for the people of Palestine has arrived in Egypt. He added that Ambassador of India to Egypt Ajit Gupte "handed over the relief material to Egyptian Red Cresent for onward transmission to Palestine."
The Egyptian Red Crescent is a humanitarian society that provides emergency medical services and aid in Egypt. Aid to Palestinians has been reaching Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah border which separates the two regions. Rafah is the only route into Gaza that is not controlled by Israel and has been permitted aid transmission by Israel following a request from the United States.
Various other United Nations agencies have sent aid to Gaza via Egypt through the Rafah border.
As per a CNN report, the Indian Air Force plane arrived at el-Arish, a city in Egypt. It carried nearly 6.5 tonnes of medical aid and 32 tonnes of disaster relief material, including life-saving medicines, surgical items, tents, sleeping bags, tarpaulins, sanitary utilities and water purification tablets.
The packages were donned with an Indian flag and a message that read "Gift from the People of INDIA to the PALESTINIAN people."
On Sunday, India also brought back 143 people including two Nepalese nationals from Israel under "Operation Ajay" amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle Eastern nation. The passengers were received at the Delhi airport by Union Minister of State for Rural Development and Steel Faggan Singh Kulaste.
India launched Operation Ajay on October 11 to repatriate stranded Indians from Israel who wished to come home in view of the Israel-Hamas war. More than 1,300 people have returned across six chartered flights by the Indian government.
The Israel-Palestine conflict escalated when Hamas militants stormed into Israel on October 7. The war is now on its 16th day and over 4,651 people have died as a result of it. For LIVE updates on the ongoing conflict, check here.
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