UAE welcomes sixth group of wounded Palestinian children, cancer patients

Abu Dhabi: The sixth group of wounded Palestinian children and cancer patients arrived in the UAE on Tuesday in implementation of the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to provide medical treatment for 1,000 injured children, and 1,000 cancer patients from the Gaza Strip, in the UAE’s hospitals.

The UAE has sent 131 aircraft and more than 14,000 tonnes of food, medical and relief supplies, and established a field hospital inside the Gaza Strip with a capacity of more than 150 beds, and launched three water desalination plants in the Egyptian Rafah region with the aim of supplying the Gaza Strip with its drinking water needs.