On the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan, 9 countries including Bangladesh have sent 2000 tons of food and medical supplies as relief to the residents of the Gaza Strip in Palestine.
This relief was sent through Al Azhar Zakat and Charity House, a famous Al Azhar University-based organization in Egypt.
Al-Azhar Zakat and Charity House said in a statement that this shipment is the largest since the war in the Gaza Strip began on October 7. Apart from Bangladesh, the eight other countries that have joined this shipment are Indonesia, India, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, France, China, Canada and Germany.
Abdel-Alim Kashta, a spokesman for Al Azhar Zakat and Charity, said trucks carrying relief goods would enter Gaza from Egypt’s North Sinai through the Rafah border crossing.
He said that Al-Azhar Zakat and Charity has sent a total of 4,000 tons of relief and humanitarian aid products since the cessation of hostilities in Gaza on October 7 until the beginning of Ramadan. The last relief was sent last December. However, this fleet is the largest of the relief fleets that have entered there so far. The fleet is organized on the basis of donations from a total of 80 countries. Nine countries contributed the most—Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, France, China, Canada and Germany, said Abdel-Alim Kashta.
It should be noted that on October 7, the fighters of Hamas, the controlling group of the Gaza Strip, killed more than 1,200 people, including military-civilian Israelis and foreign citizens, in an ambush at the Erez border in Israel. Along with that, 240 Israelis and citizens of other countries were taken hostage.
In view of this, more than 30,000 innocent Palestinian citizens, including women and children, have been killed in Israel’s counter-attacks. Countless people were injured and treated at the hospital. Several lakhs of people have become destitute.
The US, Qatar and Egypt have been mediating between Hamas and the Israeli government since the start of the war. A six-week ceasefire in Gaza starting during Ramadan was proposed by the three countries to free the remaining hostages held by Hamas, but the much-desired ceasefire did not materialize as the two warring parties, Hamas and the government of Israel, failed to reach an agreement.
