Emmanuel Macron indicated on Wednesday that “a national navy ship” was to leave the port of Toulon soon in order to provide assistance to Gazan hospitals.
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THE Thunderwho left Toulon, is currently on his way to Gaza, Franceinfo learned from a source close to the matter on Wednesday October 25.
Emmanuel Macron announced a little earlier, during a press conference in Cairo with the Egyptian president, that France was going to send a French Navy ship to the Eastern Mediterranean to “support hospitals” from Gaza.
THE Thunder go “deliver humanitarian military equipment, medicines”, specified the head of state during a press briefing from Cairo before his departure from Egypt. The contribution of the helicopter carrier “will be discussed with the Israeli and Palestinian authorities, also with NGOs and UNWRA”the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East, explains Emmanuel Macron.
Hospital structures on board
France is putting itself “able to provide support and be able to take beds” to help the people. These will be either “beds on land within existing hospitals”, either, “if it was an identified necessity” power “welcome on this hospital ship”. Details will be determined “in the coming days or weeks with the stakeholders”adds the President of the Republic.
THE Thunder is an amphibious helicopter carrier which has hospital facilities on board.