Qatar Offers Urgent Aid to Gaza

Doha, MINA – Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Thursday instructed that urgent aid worth 33 million Qatari riyals (US nine million) be provided to the Gaza Strip.

Qatari humanitarian aid includes medicine, medical and food supplies and fuel for hospital generators, Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported.

The Qatari humanitarian gesture comes in response to the hard humanitarian conditions in the enclave due to a sharp shortage of medicine and fuel triggered off by the Israeli blockade on the Palestinian territory.

Gaza receives only a few hours of mains electricity a day, so hospitals and other vital services rely on private generators run with fuel provided by the UN.

Israel has maintained a crippling blockade of Gaza for a decade which it says is necessary to isolate Hamas. Critics say it represents collective punishment of 2mn people. (T/RS5/RS1)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)