The Finance and Budget Parliamentary Committee on Monday convened in session chaired by MP Ibrahim Kanaan, to address the pending items in the 2024 state budget proposal.
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon
Health advisor to President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, Muhamad Awad Taj al-Din said that Egypt hosts a very large number of displaced people from countries allover the world including Sudan, Yemen, and Syria for example, along with other countries.
He added in statements, Monday that Egypt had provided up to $160 million of humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip, as the Red Crescent provided aid worth $70 million.
He explained that urgent medical aid was provided, through several methods, to treat patients coming from Gaza, with total coast of LE 311 million, inside the Egyptian hospitals. Other 113 cases were received, including 840 cases that required surgical intervention, Taj al-Din said.
He stressed that all civil society organizations and the ‘Decent Life’ Foundation provided great assistance to the brothers from Gaza, and also to the injured who received treatment.
Earlier In January, Egypt established six logistic zones and nine warehouses to handle international aid that arrive in Arish International Airport
and is delivered by the Egyptian Red Crescent to Gaza Strip, Minister of Social Solidarity Nevine al-Qabba stated during the ” International Call for Humanitarian Support to Gaza” conference.
The event was attended by senior officials at the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement as well as representatives of UN organizations, NGOs, and humanitarian work partners.
The minister displayed figures on the crisis in Gaza highlighting that over 97 years, the Israeli occupation committed 1,944 massacres that claimed around 23,210 lives, including 10,000 children, 7,000 women, 326 medics, 45 civil defense workers, and 112 journalists.
That is in addition to 7,000 who are still under the rubble. Seventy percent of whom are women and children. As for the injuries, they stand at 59,167, including 6,000 who need to be treated abroad. Of those, just 650 travelled.
Source: State Information Service Egypt