Egypt sent more than 3,000 tons of humanitarian aid, including food and medicine, on Sunday to the Rafah border crossing, the last stop before the aid is transferred to the Gaza Strip.
The aid, packed in 130 containers, include blankets and clothes as well as construction materials, a Cabinet statement read.
This comes only two days after an Egypt-brokered ceasefire went into effect in the strip, ending 11 days of Israeli airstrikes that killed more than 250 Palestinians.
An Egyptian convoy - prepared by the donation-based 'Tahya Misr' (Long live Egypt) Fund -has delivered the aid to the Rafah crossing, the only crossing point between Egypt and Gaza.
The convoy was prepared through contributions and in-kind donations provided by Egyptian companies working in various commercial and industrial fields, the statement read.
The companies provided these contributions as part of an Egyptian initiative supporting the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi launched the initiative on Tuesday.
The aid also includes vegetables, poultry, fruits, blankets, carpets, mattresses, sanitizers, medical masks, clothes and medicine, the statement noted.
The aid will be delivered to the Palestinian people under an Arabic slogan translated as “we share for the sake of humanity," the Cabinet said.
The slogan aims to “encourage all social work parties to compete and exert more effort in to achieving record numbers in charity and solidarity from the different nations around the world,” the statement added.
Source: Al-Ahram Online
