An Airbus A400M, the largest plane in the French army, left for Egypt. On board, medical equipment, tents but also tablets to make water drinkable.
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An Air and Space Force plane “loaded with humanitarian cargo” took off on Saturday October 28 from the Orléans air base, indicates the General Staff of the French Armies on X (formerly Twitter). This Atlas, an Airbus A400M, contains “humanitarian material for the civilian populations of Gaza”specifies the Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu on X. He will land in Egypt.
A first French plane with 54 tonnes of emergency humanitarian aid for the benefit of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has already been chartered, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Thursday evening. Since Friday evening, the Palestinian territory has been isolated from the rest of the world: “Internet and all telephone networks have been cut”said Léo Cans, head of mission of Médecins sans frontières, on franceinfo.
Medicines and hospital equipment requested by humanitarian associations
This aid includes emergency medical kits, including medicines and hospital equipment intended to strengthen emergency structures and capable of treating up to 500 seriously injured people. 58 boxes of medicines for pediatrics, emergency and general medicine are also provided, each box allowing the care of 500 patients.
18 emergency respirators, 1,000 solar lamps, around ten generators and 336 tents, each capable of sheltering a family, are also part of the cargo. 28 tonnes of food supplements as well as 70,000 water purification tablets complete the aid. Essential resources that have been requested for several days by the humanitarian associations on site.
On Wednesday October 25, the military hospital ship Tonnerre left Toulon to support hospitals in Gaza. He must “deliver humanitarian military equipment, medicines”announced Emmanuel Macron.