The Qatar Charity Association announced the allocation of $ 5 million to provide the urgent humanitarian needs of the Palestinians who are suffering under the Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
The association said that the amount allocated to support the Palestinian people comes within the "Save Palestine" campaign launched by the association in conjunction with the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, noting that "a new humanitarian tragedy increases the suffering of our people in Palestine."
She explained that hundreds of the wounded are in urgent need of treatment and medicine, while dozens of families are left without shelter and no food or medicine after their homes were destroyed or severely damaged, calling on the public to donate to the relief campaign and contribute to alleviating the suffering of the Palestinians, by providing urgent health and food services to those affected. .
A source in Qatar Charity revealed a large public interaction with the #Relief_Palestine campaign since its launch. It is expected that this campaign will achieve its goals in providing urgent relief requirements to help alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people and provide the necessary support to the affected families.
The source added that the aid that Qatar Charity will provide through its relief offices and field teams in the occupied Palestinian territories will focus on providing food and health assistance to those affected by the war in order to alleviate the impact of the humanitarian crisis.
Qatar Charity called for interaction with its campaign to help the Palestinian people (Al-Jazeera)
Quick response
In conjunction with the Qatar Charity campaign, the Qatar Red Crescent announced the allocation of $ 1 million from the Disaster Fund, in response to recent events in Palestine and to provide the most basic needs at the present time.
With its urgent response, the Crescent seeks to provide support in a number of areas, such as providing medicines and medical supplies to cope with the acute consumption of these materials in the current situation, as well as securing ambulances, providing medical equipment for hospitals, materials to prevent the spread of the Corona epidemic, foodstuffs, and partially repairing damaged homes. .
The field team of the Qatar Red Crescent in the Gaza Strip conducted a field visit to the affected areas and hospitals to assess the damage and urgent humanitarian needs, as it visited the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, which is the largest hospital in the Gaza Strip, to check on the safety of the wounded and to assess the most important health needs that Gaza hospitals need.
Since 2010 until now, the Red Crescent has implemented more than 90 health projects in the Gaza Strip, at a total cost of more than $ 110 million, in order to improve the humanitarian conditions and alleviate the repercussions of the blockade and closure imposed on the Gaza Strip for more than 13 years.
The Qatar Red Crescent announces the allocation of one million dollars in urgent aid to the people of Gaza (Al-Jazeera)
Rapid intervention
The Qatari support did not stop at Qatar Charity and the Red Crescent. Rather, the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza participated in those efforts by distributing urgent relief aid to the families of the martyrs and their homes in the Gaza Strip destroyed.
The head of the committee, Ambassador Muhammad Al-Emadi, said that the cash assistance will be provided to the families of the martyrs in all governorates, whose number has exceeded 170 so far, as well as to the owners of completely demolished homes, which amounted to about 500 homes, and the partially damaged homes that have become uninhabitable, which number about 300 homes, and that. In coordination with the relevant government agencies in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Emadi indicated that this urgent aid comes in order to relieve the families of the martyrs and to enable those affected to purchase basic necessities, provide urgent needs, or pay rent for temporary housing and others.