France is constant its motion to offer medical and humanitarian help for civilians in Gaza. Because the Minister for Europe and International Affairs reiterated yesterday on the United Nations Safety Council, this help consists in:
- treating the wounded on board the Dixmude in el-Arish. Round 1,000 medical procedures have been carried on the market;
- supporting NGO medical constructions in Gaza or these being operated by associate international locations, together with Jordan;
- sending medical cargo;
- making certain the medical evacuation to France of youngsters whose remedy requires entry to specialist paediatric care.
Within the final of those actions, performed collectively by the Ministry for Europe and International Affairs and the Ministry of Labour, Well being and Solidarity, seven Palestinian youngsters had been transferred to French hospitals as we speak. That is the second operation of this sort.
France thanks the Egyptian authorities for his or her help in making certain these evacuations went forward easily.
France stays extraordinarily involved concerning the humanitarian state of affairs in Gaza, the place the dearth of meals, consuming water and medicines has, for a number of weeks, been exposing the civilian inhabitants to a really critical well being and meals disaster.
As M. Stéphane Séjourné, Minister for Europe and International Affairs, reiterated in his speech to the United Nations Safety Council on 23 January, we should work instantly in direction of an enduring ceasefire, which alone can finish the struggling of Gaza’s civilians.
