UK Unveils $2 Million Life-Saving Aid Package for Gaza

By Staff, The Independent

Britain’s new Middle East minister unveiled a £1.6 million [around $2 million] aid package for Gaza to help provide life-saving medical treatment for nearly 400,000 people, warning the crisis in the besieged enclave was “unsustainable”.

During his first trip overseas in the new role, Andrew Murrison visited Gaza to support the collapsing health service, which has been battered by a 12-year ‘Israeli’ siege and multiple devastating wars.

The funds, which will be given to the World Health Organization, will establish a new limb reconstruction unit that the UK says will address urgent gaps in trauma and emergency care there

Gaza’s ailing hospitals have struggled to treat thousands of people who have been injured by Zionist fire during regular rallies and clashes at the border over the last year.

‘Israeli’ occupation soldiers have killed more than 190 Palestinians and shot and wounded 6,800 more during the weekly protests, which have seen the landowners hurl firebombs and explosives at the occupation’s separation fence.

Of the injured at least 120 have had their limbs amputated, including 20 children.

The United Nations warned last week that without an urgent injection of funds an additional 1,700 people in need of limb-saving surgery could lose their legs and arms due to funding shortfalls.

Murrison said that UK aid to the WHO would establish a new limb reconstruction unit in Gaza to mitigate that, as well as providing valuable expertise to help Gaza’s health service deal with emergency patients more efficiently.