Algeria sends 20 tons of school supplies to Gaza's children

Algeria dispatched on Monday 20 tons of school supplies to the children of Gaza, with the aid carried on a military cargo plane that was headed towards Al-Ismailia airport in Egypt, Anadolu news agency reported.

According to Anadolu, Algerian state television asserted that: “A military cargo plane has taken off on Monday from the airport in Boufarik, south of the capital in Blida, towards the airport of Al-Ismailia in northeast Egypt. It has been loaded with about 20 tons of school supplies for the benefit of the children of Gaza in occupied Palestine through an initiative organised by the Union of Algerian Doctors.”

President of the government’s Union of Algerian Doctors Gamal Weld Abbas explained that: “This is the first batch of aid, which includes 150,000 copybooks and scholar notebooks. Other aid deliveries will follow to reach one million copybooks and scholar notebooks,” adding that, “this will be carried out in coordination with the Palestinian authorities.”

Abbas also noted “another endeavour that is being prepared for which has to do with providing psychological support to the children of Gaza by Algerians specialists and psychologists, especially after the horror that these children have lived under during the recent Zionist aggression,” without specifying a date for the departure of the delegation.

The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza has remained semi-closed since the latest war, with Egypt refusing access to many aid convoys that wish to pass.