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- The aid shipment comprises 5,000 tonnes of food parcels, 1,900 tonnes of supplies for community kitchens, 100 tonnes of medical tents as well as five fully equipped ambulances
DUBAI: The UAE’s Hamdan Humanitarian Ship, which sailed off from Khalifa Port on August 30, has arrived at Al-Arish Port in Egypt where food and medical supplies would be unloaded and subsequently delivered to residents in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The ship, part of the UAE’s Operation Chivalrous Knight 3 humanitarian initiative for Gaza which provides essential aid through land convoys, sea shipments and airdrops, was loaded with 7,000 tonnes of food, medical and relief aid, state news agency WAM reported.
The aid shipment comprises 5,000 tonnes of food parcels, 1,900 tonnes of supplies for community kitchens, 100 tonnes of medical tents as well as five fully equipped ambulances.
The Emirates has so far dispatched 20 aid ships to Gaza, and has delivered approximately 90,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid, at a cost of $1.8 billion, since Operation Chivalrous Knight 3 was launched.
In August, the UAE inaugurated a 7.5-kilometer water pipeline that would transport desalinated water from Emirati desalination plants in Egypt to the Gaza Strip. The pipeline has a capacity of around 2 million gallons per day and could serve more than one million people.