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Turkey delivers medical aid to Gaza

Türkiye Materials 29 July 2014 22:07 (UTC +04:00)
The Turkish Red Crescent on Tuesday delivered three shipments of medical supplies to the Gaza Strip, which has been suffering incessant Israeli attacks since July 7, Anadolu Agency reported.
Turkey delivers medical aid to Gaza

The Turkish Red Crescent on Tuesday delivered three shipments of medical supplies to the Gaza Strip, which has been suffering Israeli attacks since July 7, Anadolu Agency reported.

When they reached Gaza, the three shipments were received by the Palestinian Red Crescent.

"We have received medicine supplies from the state of Turkey," Safaa Hawar, who is responsible for warehouses at the Palestinian Red Crescent, told Anadolu Agency.

She said the supplies included antibiotics, surgery requirements, and medicines containing Penicillin.

Hawar added that the Turkish shipments arrived to Gaza through the Karam Abu Salem crossing in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

She referred to acute shortage of medical supplies in Gaza's hospitals and medical centers in the presence of increasing demand induced by the growing number of victims from Israel's war on Gaza.

The Palestinian Health Ministry, meanwhile, has been ringing the alarm over an imminent humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip as a result of medical supplies' shortages and repeated power cuts.

Since July 7, Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip with fierce aerial bombardments with the ostensible aim of halting rocket fire from the strip, leaving 1158 people dead and more than 7000 others injured.

Gaza-based resistance factions, meanwhile, have continued to fire rocket at Israeli cities in response to Israeli bombardments.

According to official Israeli figures, 53 Israeli soldiers and three civilians have been killed since the hostilities began.

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