Mohammed sends potable water for Gaza

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has instructed the UAE Suqia Water Aid Foundation to give top priority to the provision of potable water to Gazans who are suffering acute shortage of water as a result of Israeli bombardment, and to act swiftly to provide enough water supplies despite tremendous challenges to realise that goal amidst the continuous Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

Sheikh Mohammed reiterated the UAE's firm commitment to standing beside the Palestinian people in their just causes and its keenness to support the people of Gaza in their ordeal.

"Lack of clean drinking water resources constitutes one the most daunting challenges our people of Gaza are facing today. Therefore, we have instructed the Water Aid Foundation to act immediately to deliver ample quantities of the vital resource to the people of Gaza in a way that complements the massive efforts being made by the UAE in partnership with other international organisations and agencies specialised in transporting essential relief supplies to Gaza Strip within the context of the UAE President's urgent humanitarian initiatives," Sheikh Mohammed said.

He added, ''Provision of clean drinking water is not a luxury, rather it is a duty and if delivery of water in time of peace is taken for granted it is necessary and imperative for those besieged under shelling. The UAE will continue its campaign to provide water to million of persons all over the world and deliver the message of love, peace and goodness to all peoples of the earth.''

Sheikh Mohammed recently ordered an air-bridge to relieve the people of Gaza, and instructed Dubai International Humanitarian City to add more giant air transport carriers, like the Boeing 747, to airlift essential relief assistance to Gaza.

The air-bridge has provided freight capacity of 150 tones of humanitarian assistance per day from Dubai to Amman from where it is trucked to Gaza. 

The Gaza Water Aid is part of the intensive efforts the UAE Suqia Water Aid campaign is making to provide drinking water in different parts of the world.

ERC to send 10 drinking water tanks into Gaza Strip

The UAE's Emirates Red Crescent Authority (ERC) is sending ten drinking water tanks from Amman, Jordan, into Gaza Strip where they will be handed over to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) as part of ERC's continuous relief operation aimed at helping Gazan Palestinians.

Secretary-General of ERC Mohamed Ateeq Al Falahi said the humanitarian agency's latest relief effort for Gaza is in implementation of the instructions of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to UAE Suqia Water Aid Foundation, which is working on providing clean water for five million people around the world, to give top priority to providing potable water to tens of thousands of Gazans who are living in tragic humanitarian conditions and suffering from acute shortage of water, and to act swiftly to provide enough water supplies despite tremendous challenges to achieve that goal amidst the continuous Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip.

ERC is coordinating its emergency water aid for Gaza with its delegations in Egypt and Gaza and the UAE Embassy in Amman.

Al Falahi noted that the initiative is only part of the UAE humanitarian body's Gaza operation which has already delivered food aid, shelters and clothes, as well as medical, healthcare and hygiene aid to Gazans taking shelter at UNRWA schools from the dangerous development in the strip.

Al Falahi added that as UAE continues its relief efforts to help Gazans, ERC has already sent a fifth delegation to the strip since the start of  onslaught on Gaza in coordination with the country's embassies in Egypt and Jordan, Palestine Red Crescent Society and international humanitarian agencies operating in the Gaza Strip.





 

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