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Medics and a convoy of trucks loaded with aid supplies for Gaza provided by Egyptian NGOs waits for an agreement to cross through the Egypt-Gaza border in Arish City in Egypt’s north Sinai Peninsula on October 15, 2023. - Egypt to the south controls the only other crossing with Gaza but has so far refused to open it for Palestinian or foreign refugees unless aid convoys are allowed to enter, according to unnamed intelligence sources cited in media reports. (Photo by Ali Moustafa / AFP)
CAIRO - The 17th Kuwaiti plane loaded with 40 tons of humanitarian aid allocated for the Gazans landed at Egypt's Al-Arish Airport Thursday.
Speaking to KUNA in a statement, Mahmoud Al-Misbah, head of relief sector at the Kuwait Society for Relief, said the aid includes three ambulances, and food and medical supplies.
The aid comes upon the political leadership's directives, in cooperation with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense and Social Affairs as well as some charities, he added.
Meanwhile, Deputy Director General of the Kuwait Society for Relief, Omar Al-Thuwaini, said that the Kuwaiti aid is part of a campaign in support of Palestine, in which all Kuwaiti government agencies and charitable societies cooperate to provide humanitarian support to the people of the Gaza Strip.
This assistance is provided by the society, which includes 22 Kuwaiti charitable committees, in cooperation with Zakat House, the Public Secretariat of Awqaf and Public Authority for Minors Affairs, he noted.
Kuwait's relief aid arrived at Al-Arish Airport to be delivered to the Gazans has reached so far 439 tons of food and medical supplies, ambulances, clothes and others.
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