Aid for civilians and medicine for Israeli hostages enter Gaza due to Qatari agreement
Official sources said that aid for civilians and medicine for Israeli hostages entered Gaza this Wednesday in implementation of the agreement brokered by Qatar.
“In the last few hours, medicines and aid have entered the Gaza Strip, In application of the agreement announced yesterday for the benefit of the civilian population of the Strip, including the hostages, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Majid Al Ansari said on his official
“Qatar, together with its regional and international partners, continues its mediation efforts at the political and humanitarian level,” he concluded in his brief message, accompanied by an image of two planes that arrived in Al Arish (Egypt) earlier in the day. ,
Islamist group Hamas said this Wednesday that out of every thousand boxes of medicine entering the Gaza Strip, one will be for hostages.Under an agreement with Israel brokered by Qatar and France.
“For every box of medicine for the prisoners, a thousand for our people,” Moussa Abu Marzouq, a senior Hamas political bureau official who lives in Lebanon, said in a publication on X about the terms of the agreement.
The Hamas leader said the shipment included 140 different types of drugs.
Medicines will be distributed by the International Committee The Hamas leader indicated that the Red Cross, both those meant for the hostages and those meant for the Gazan population, would be distributed to four hospitals spread across the strip.
Until now the Red Cross has not had access to the hostages to check their health status and conditions of captivity, which has been highly criticized by the families and the Israeli government; However, the organization alleges that security conditions are not guaranteed for this.
It is the first agreement between the warring sides since a week-long ceasefire in November allowed the release of 105 hostages in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners, an exchange facilitated by the Red Cross.
It is estimated that 136 hostages remain inside the strip. -27 of them have died, and 75% of them require medical treatment, either because they suffer from chronic diseases or because they are injured.