Today, a humanitarian convoy of 15 trucks was deployed by Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) and the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO), with food and nonfood aid to be delivered for displaced Palestinian families stranded in northern Gaza.
The launch was attended by Mohamed Ahmed Al-Bishri, Director of Communication and Fundraising at QRCS, Dr. Hussein Al-Shibli, Secretary-General of JHCO, staff of Qatar’s Embassy in Jordan, and QRCS’s personnel.
This is the latest of successive humanitarian convoys jointly deployed by QRCS and JHCO. Together, they deployed 38 relief trucks earlier this year.
To meet the key humanitarian needs and enhance resilience of the people in northern Gaza, the new trucked aid includes the following components:
1. Food Parcels: As phase 3 of food aid for displaced families, this batch contains 3,000 food parcels loaded on five trucks. The previous two phases totaled approximately 20,500 food parcels.
2. Drinking Water: Two trucks carry 4,000 pure water jerrycans.
3. Adahi Meat: Under phase 2 of the Adahi sacrificial meat project, two trucks were deployed with a total of 2,100 kg of canned beef, contained in 2,050 boxes, or 49,600 cans. Two trucks had already been deployed to Gaza with the meat of 1,500 sacrificial animals.
4. Winterization: Under QRCS’s #TheirWarmthIsOurDuty Warm Winter Campaign, six trucks loaded with diverse winterization aid were deployed to help displaced families during the cold winter.
Since the beginning of war on Gaza, QRCS has contributed 116 planeloads of diverse relief aid and part of the cargo of one Qatari aid ship, providing up to 4,766 tons of relief items for Gaza. Its field personnel have implemented 32 emergency interventions for some 1.7 million beneficiaries.