The UAE Red Crescent Society (RCS) will build a hospital in Palestine to provide medical treatment for those injured in the Intifadah (uprising). The Zayed Specialist Surgical Hospital will be set up in Ramallah as a gift of President His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

RCS Chairman Khalifa Nasser Al Suwaidi said yesterday the hospital would help solve the tough medical problems that the area is facing. The growing number of injuries and shortages of medicines have handicapped the hospitals in the area.

The RCS Emergency Relief Committee approved several charity projects for the Palestinians.The RCS has been preparing another planeload of medicines, equipment and food. The plane is expected to leave Abu Dhabi within a couple of days.

The committee will also set up the Fatima bint Mubarak Training and Rehabilitation Institute in Al Khalil. The institute will be a gift from Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, wife of the President and Chairperson of the UAE Women's Federation.

It will serve people who have been maimed and disabled by Israeli attacks. “The initiation of this institute reflects Sheikha Fatima's concern for handicapped Palestinians. She plays a leading role in supporting people with special needs,” Al Suwaidi said.

The committee will establish a charity here to provide financial support for the martyrs' families and to take care of the handicapped children of the Intifadah.

Ambulances will be sent to Palestinian hospitals to replace those destroyed in the violence. The society will also send fire engines for Al Aqsa Mosque and 45 trucks for the transport of goods to the residents of towns under Israeli siege.

“The Red Crescent Society will continue to send its delegations to the occupied territories to share the crisis with the Palestinians and to support them. These delegations will continue to identify their urgent needs and try to make them easily available."

He said that previous visits by UAE delegations left a good impression on the Palestinian community because they were the first ones able to reach the needy in their homes.