A Moroccan humanitarian aid convoy accompanied by a field hospital and medical crews arrived in the Gaza Strip through Rafah crossing on Friday evening.
Quds Press reported that the 165-member delegation that arrived with the convoy included Morocco’s ambassador to Egypt Ahmad Tazi in addition to doctors and technicians for the field hospital set to be established in Gaza.
The Moroccan ambassador during a press conference at Rafah crossing said that 17 Moroccan aircraft carried humanitarian aid and medicines from Morocco to Gaza through Egypt.
Tazi said that this initiative by King Mohammed VI of Morocco came in view of the hardships experienced by the Palestinian people in Gaza and the increasing number of casualties in the Great March of Return protests.
For his part the Hamas leader Ghazi Hamad who received the convoy upon its arrival at Rafah crossing hailed Morocco’s noble initiative which shows that the Palestinian people are not alone in their struggle against the occupation injustice and siege.
The Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 28th May announced that King Mohammed VI had decided to establish a field hospital in the Gaza Strip to provide the necessary treatment for the civilians injured in the recent border events.
The Palestinians in Gaza have been protesting peacefully since 30th March along the border with the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories in demand of the Palestinian refugees’ right of return to their lands and villages from which they were expelled by force in 1948.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health since the start of the protests the Israeli occupation army has killed 127 peaceful protesters including 13 children and injured 14700.
