- Title: EU delegation visits Gaza's aid warehouses in Egypt's Arish
- Date: 3rd March 2024
- Summary: ARISH, EGYPT (MARCH 3, 2024) (OBTAINED BY REUTERS) CHAIR OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT'S SUBCOMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS UDO BULLMANN WALKING WITH EGYPTIAN RED CRESCENT STAFF AS HE VISITS WAREHOUSES WHERE AID IS STORED BEFORE BEING SENT TO GAZA TRUCK CARRYING BOXES OF AID WITH THE UNICEF NAME ON IT BULLMANN WALKING WITH EGYPTIAN RED CRESCENT STAFF BULLMANN BEING SHOWN AROUND EGYPTIAN RED CRESCENT STAFF MEMBER EXPLAINING TO BULLMANN AND OTHERS THE AID FLOW (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHAIR OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT'S SUBCOMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS, SAYING: “A ceasefire is the only way in our eyes, in our views, to do the most urgent thing now, to prevent thousands of people from being killed, innocent lives from being killed, and to provide humanitarian aid which is really needed. So that is what we bring in our messages and what we got to know and let me please underscore that we are really really grateful for the Egyptian people for their support, in a situation of absolute tragedy, of absolute crisis. We’ve seen your part in humanitarian aid, we’ve seen the logistics activities here in the warehouses and the medical support in your hospitals, we’re grateful for that and I’m pretty sure the European Union will do its very best to support you on that.” BULLMANN SPEAKING TO EGYPTIAN RED CRESCENT STAFF BULLMANN GREETING EGYPTIAN RED CRESCENT STAFF VARIOUS OF EGYPTIAN RED CRESCENT STAFF MEMBER EXPLAINING TO BULLMANN THE AID FLOW (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHAIR OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT'S SUBCOMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS, UDO BULLMANN, SAYING: “We’ve had a look at the warehouse and especially on this department within the warehouse where the rejected objects are stored, and we saw incredible things. We saw the rejection of most dearly needed medical devices, we saw the rejection of tents and toilets and refrigerators which are really needed to preserve medicine in order to reach the patients, and we appeal to everybody to let in what is needed to be let in.” VARIOUS OF BULLMANN BEING SHOWN AROUND BULLMANN WALKING WITH EGYPTIAN RED CRESCENT STAFF EGYPTIAN RED CRESCENT STAFF TALKING TO A MEMBER OF THE DELEGATION
- Embargoed: 17th March 2024 14:07
- Keywords: Aid Arish Egypt European Parliament Gaza
- Location: ARISH, EGYPT
- City: ARISH, EGYPT
- Country: Egypt
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East
- Reuters ID: LVA001505603032024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:A delegation of the European parliament visited Egypt’s Arish on Sunday (March 3) where they checked aid in the warehouses before being sent to Gaza.
Udo Bulmann, the Chair of the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights also saw the warehouse where aid items for Gaza that were rejected by Israel were stored.
"We appeal to everybody to let in what is needed to be let in," he said.
The delegation also visited Palestinian medical evacuees in Arish hospital.
The war was unleashed in October after Hamas fighters stormed through Israeli towns killing 1,200 people and capturing 253 hostages, according to Israeli tallies. Since then, Israeli forces have killed more than 30,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health authorities, with thousands more dead feared unrecovered under rubble.
Swathes of the Gaza Strip have been laid to waste, nearly the entire population has been made homeless, and the United Nations estimates that a quarter of Gazans are on the verge of a manmade famine.
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