Russia sends 25 tonnes of aid for Gaza

Moscow, Russia — AFP

Russia has sent 25 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Egypt to be delivered to the Gaza Strip, which has been under near-total siege and relentless bombardment by Israel.
Since October 9, when Israel placed the Palestinian territory under a “total siege”, only very limited quantities of basic human necessities like water, food and medicine have been allowed into Gaza.
About 500 aid trucks have been allowed into the territory from Egypt over the past month, a number that had been the daily average before the war.
“A special aircraft of the Russian Emergencies Ministry delivered 25 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the Arab Republic of Egypt,” it said on social media.
It published images of staff loading cargo onto an Il-76 plane in an airport in the central Russian city of Kazan, saying the shipment contained food and hygiene products, as well as clothing and portable cookers.
“The humanitarian cargo has already been handed over to representatives of the Egyptian Red Crescent Society.
“Further Russian aid will be sent to the residents of the Gaza Strip,” it said in the most recent post.
This is at least the fifth aid shipment from Russia to Gaza, according to the emergency service’s social media.
Vowing to destroy Hamas, Israel retaliated to the October 7 attack with aerial bombing and ground attacks in the besieged and impoverished territory. According to the health ministry in the Gaza Strip, Israel has killed more than 11,000 people, many of them children.