On Thursday, Russia sent 27 tonnes of humanitarian aid for civilians in the Gaza Strip to be transported from Egypt, Moscow’s emergency situations ministry said.
Deputy Minister Ilya Denisov said in a statement, “A special plane has taken off from the airport at Ramenskoye near Moscow for El-Arish, in Egypt. The Russian humanitarian aid will be handed over to the Egyptian Red Crescent to be sent to the Gaza Strip.”
On Wednesday, the government of Ireland announced an immediate humanitarian aid package of 13 million euros ($13.7 million) to the Palestinians while calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas clash.
Gazans have been encountering threatening shortages as the territory was effectively sealed off in the wake of the October 7 invasions by the Palestinian militants Hamas on Israeli communities and military posts.
Those attacks and the fight they flared have claimed around 1,400 lives in Israel and 3,478 in Gaza, according to officials on each side.
