Emirates Red Crescent has dispatched thousands of tonnes of essentials – including food and medical supplies. Wam
Emirates Red Crescent has dispatched thousands of tonnes of essentials – including food and medical supplies. Wam
Emirates Red Crescent has dispatched thousands of tonnes of essentials – including food and medical supplies. Wam
Emirates Red Crescent has dispatched thousands of tonnes of essentials – including food and medical supplies. Wam

Emirates Red Crescent distributes more aid to Palestinians in Gaza


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The UAE has delivered more food supplies to help thousands of Palestinians affected by the Israel-Gaza war.

The Emirates Red Crescent, the humanitarian arm of the UAE government, distributed food parcels and tents to women and children in the besieged enclave.

A total of 311,730 benefitted from the aid distributed by the ERC, news agency Wam reported.

The authority also operated 11 charity kitchens to distribute meals to displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Khan Younis and central Gaza.

The humanitarian support is being distributed as part of the Gallant Knight 3 humanitarian operation ordered by President Sheikh Mohamed.

The UAE has dispatched thousands of tonnes of essentials – including food and medical supplies – by land and air over recent months as part of the aid operation.

Earlier this month, the UAE expanded its desalination plants at the Rafah border with Gaza.

The increased operation will provide 4.5 million litres of clean drinking water a day to Gazans.

More than 25,700 Palestinians have been killed since Israel's war against Hamas began following the militant group's October 7 attacks.

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    Palestinian Muhammad Al Durra with his children in the ruins of a house in Rafah where they sheltered on January 11, 2024. EPA
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    Family and friends at the funerals of journalists Hamza Al Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya on January 7, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. Getty Images
  • Palestinians mourn relatives killed by Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a mortuary in Khan Younis January 4, 2024. AP Photo
    Palestinians mourn relatives killed by Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a mortuary in Khan Younis January 4, 2024. AP Photo
  • Displaced Palestinians queue to bake bread at a camp in the Muwasi area of Rafah, Gaza Strip, on December 23, 2023. AP Photo
    Displaced Palestinians queue to bake bread at a camp in the Muwasi area of Rafah, Gaza Strip, on December 23, 2023. AP Photo
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    Palestinians queue for food in Rafah, the Gaza Strip, on December 20, 2023. AP Photo
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    The ruins of Rafah on December 14, 2023. AFP
  • Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip arrive at a hospital in Khan Younis on December 8, 2023. AP Photo
    Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip arrive at a hospital in Khan Younis on December 8, 2023. AP Photo
  • Palestinians flee Israeli bombing along the Salaheddine Road in the Zeitoun district of Gaza city on November 28, 2023. AFP
    Palestinians flee Israeli bombing along the Salaheddine Road in the Zeitoun district of Gaza city on November 28, 2023. AFP
  • A Red Cross vehicle takes Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip into Egypt in Rafah on November 25, 2023. AP
    A Red Cross vehicle takes Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip into Egypt in Rafah on November 25, 2023. AP
  • The ruins of buildings in Gaza city on November 24, 2023, as a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas took effect. AP Photo
    The ruins of buildings in Gaza city on November 24, 2023, as a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas took effect. AP Photo
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    A woman and her cat return home to eastern Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip during the first hours of a four-day truce between Israel and Hamas forces on November 24, 2023. AFP
  • Mourning the dead of Israeli bombardment outside the mortuary at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on November 14, 2023. AFP
    Mourning the dead of Israeli bombardment outside the mortuary at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on November 14, 2023. AFP
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    Civilians and rescuers look for survivors in the rubble of a building after Israeli bombing of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 12, 2023. AFP
  • November 7, 2023, a month to the day after Hamas attacked Israel, a victim of an Israeli bombardment in Rafah is moved from the rubble. AFP
    November 7, 2023, a month to the day after Hamas attacked Israel, a victim of an Israeli bombardment in Rafah is moved from the rubble. AFP
  • Searching the rubble after Israeli air strikes on the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on October 26, 2023. AP Photo
    Searching the rubble after Israeli air strikes on the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on October 26, 2023. AP Photo
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    Mourning the Kotz family at their funeral in Gan Yavne, Israel, on October 17, 2023. AP Photo
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    An Israeli firefighter composes himself after he and his colleagues extinguished cars set on fire by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ashkelon, Israel, on October 9, 2023. AP Photo
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    Palestinians with the wreckage of an Israeli tank at the Gaza Strip fence east of the city of Khan Younis on October 7, 2023, the day Hamas forces swept unopposed into Israel. AP Photo
  • Israeli police officers evacuate a woman and a child from a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on October 7, 2023. AP Photo
    Israeli police officers evacuate a woman and a child from a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel, on October 7, 2023. AP Photo
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Name: Dukkantek 

Started: January 2021 

Founders: Sanad Yaghi, Ali Al Sayegh and Shadi Joulani 

Based: UAE 

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Updated: January 25, 2024, 6:08 AM