ANKARA: Turkey’s Kizilay (Crimson Crescent) is sending its largest support cargo but to Gaza through Egypt, with a ship carrying some 3,000 tons of meals, medicine and tools leaving for the Egyptian port of Al-Arish on Thursday.
Turkey, which has harshly criticised Israel for its army offensive in Gaza and backed measures to have it tried for genocide on the World Courtroom, has repeatedly known as for a ceasefire and warned of penalties if calm can’t be achieved by the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, beginning on Sunday.
“This support, which can be delivered to Gaza with the help and cooperation of the Egyptian Crimson Crescent, will hold the hopes of Palestinians alive on the eve of Ramadan,” Turkey’s ambassador to Cairo, Salih Mutlu Sen, stated on social media platform X.
Kizilay head Fatma Meric Yilmaz instructed broadcaster CNN Turk that the ship would make two journeys to Egypt to ship the help, largely collected by donations.
It is going to then be transported in round 200 vans to the border city of Rafah in Gaza, the place multiple million folks have taken refuge, she added. The help consists of flour, hygiene merchandise, ready-to-eat meals, ambulances, and transportable kitchens.
“We’ve got nearly sufficient support collected to fill the second ship too,” she stated. “As soon as the ship returns right here, we’ll fill it up once more and the ship will then go once more across the twenty sixth (of March) close to the center of Ramadan.”
Turkey has already despatched 1000’s of tons of support to Egypt for supply to Gaza.
Not like its Western allies and a few Gulf nations, Nato member Turkey doesn’t view the Palestinian group Hamas, which runs Gaza, as a terrorist organisation. It was an assault by Hamas militants on southern Israel on Oct. 7 that prompted the present Israeli army offensive, now in its fifth month.
In Gaza, the humanitarian state of affairs is worst within the north of the enclave, which is past the attain of support businesses or information cameras. Complete swathes of the territory are lower off from meals, with the already curtailed support provides to the remainder of Gaza dwindling to barely a trickle over the previous month.
Final week, the USA began dropping support on Gaza by air, with the Netherlands, France, and others contributing. Turkey has not voiced eagerness to hitch the air drops to this point. A Turkish defence ministry official instructed reporters on Thursday that Ankara’s support efforts for Gaza by air would proceed through Egypt and Jordan consistent with wants and calls for.
Turkey, which has harshly criticised Israel for its army offensive in Gaza and backed measures to have it tried for genocide on the World Courtroom, has repeatedly known as for a ceasefire and warned of penalties if calm can’t be achieved by the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, beginning on Sunday.
“This support, which can be delivered to Gaza with the help and cooperation of the Egyptian Crimson Crescent, will hold the hopes of Palestinians alive on the eve of Ramadan,” Turkey’s ambassador to Cairo, Salih Mutlu Sen, stated on social media platform X.
Kizilay head Fatma Meric Yilmaz instructed broadcaster CNN Turk that the ship would make two journeys to Egypt to ship the help, largely collected by donations.
It is going to then be transported in round 200 vans to the border city of Rafah in Gaza, the place multiple million folks have taken refuge, she added. The help consists of flour, hygiene merchandise, ready-to-eat meals, ambulances, and transportable kitchens.
“We’ve got nearly sufficient support collected to fill the second ship too,” she stated. “As soon as the ship returns right here, we’ll fill it up once more and the ship will then go once more across the twenty sixth (of March) close to the center of Ramadan.”
Turkey has already despatched 1000’s of tons of support to Egypt for supply to Gaza.
Not like its Western allies and a few Gulf nations, Nato member Turkey doesn’t view the Palestinian group Hamas, which runs Gaza, as a terrorist organisation. It was an assault by Hamas militants on southern Israel on Oct. 7 that prompted the present Israeli army offensive, now in its fifth month.
In Gaza, the humanitarian state of affairs is worst within the north of the enclave, which is past the attain of support businesses or information cameras. Complete swathes of the territory are lower off from meals, with the already curtailed support provides to the remainder of Gaza dwindling to barely a trickle over the previous month.
Final week, the USA began dropping support on Gaza by air, with the Netherlands, France, and others contributing. Turkey has not voiced eagerness to hitch the air drops to this point. A Turkish defence ministry official instructed reporters on Thursday that Ankara’s support efforts for Gaza by air would proceed through Egypt and Jordan consistent with wants and calls for.
