Qatar has confirmed that a shipment of medicine and aid has entered the Gaza Strip thanks to the agreement

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Madrid, January 17 (Europa Press) –

The Qatari Foreign Ministry confirmed this Wednesday that a shipment of medicine and humanitarian aid has entered the Gaza Strip, thanks to the agreement between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

“In the past few hours, medicines and aid have arrived in the Gaza Strip in implementation of the agreement announced yesterday for the benefit of civilians in the strip, including hostages,” a spokesman for the Arab country’s Foreign Minister Majid Bin said. Ansari, on the social network X, formerly known as Twitter.

Hamas said earlier this Wednesday that Israeli forces “will not inspect” drug shipments being sent to Gaza and stressed that “for every box of medicine given to hostages, a thousand boxes of medicine Will be given to the Palestinian people.”

The conditions have been set, Musa Abu Marzouq, a senior official in the Islamist group’s political wing, indicated in a message on his account on Hamas’ social networks that there were 140 types of drugs.

Two Qatari military planes with medicines arrived this Wednesday at the Egyptian airport of Al Arish in the Sinai Peninsula, so that the cargo could be transferred in the next few hours to the Palestinian enclave controlled by the Islamic group.

Qatar confirmed on Tuesday that Israel and Hamas reached an agreement for the supply of medicines to Israeli hostages and the Palestinian population in Gaza, within the framework of the military offensive launched by Israel following the attacks by the Islamic group on October 7 Were. In which about 1,200 people were killed and about 240 people were kidnapped.

Enclave officials have reported more than 24,400 Palestinian deaths so far, including more than 335 in security force operations and settler attacks in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.