International medical team arrived in Gaza, says Red Cross

By Muhammad Majed

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced on Friday the entry of an international medical team into Gaza, along with six trucks loaded with medical materials and water purification supplies to support medical care in the blockaded strip.

In a statement, the ICRC said that “a war surgery team and a weapons contamination specialist are among 10 International Committee of the Red Cross experts who arrived in Gaza on Friday, entering alongside six ICRC trucks carrying urgently needed medical material and water purification supplies.”

Fabrizio Carboni, the ICRC’s regional director for the Near and Middle East, said that “this crucial humanitarian assistance is a small dose of relief, but it’s not enough.”

“Our surgical team and medical supplies will help relieve the extreme pressure on Gaza’s doctors and nurses,” he said, adding that “safe, sustained humanitarian access is urgently needed.”

Wael Abu Mohsen, the media director at the Rafah crossing, told Anadolu that “a foreign medical delegation of 10 doctors from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, and Switzerland arrived in Gaza.”

He also stated that “Trucks carrying aid, water, food supplies, and medicines also entered into the Gaza Strip through the Rafah land crossing.”

The total number of aid trucks that have entered the Gaza Strip through the Rafah land crossing since the beginning of the recent conflict reached 84 trucks, according to Abu Mohsen.

*Writing by Ikram Kouachi