Two Iranian aid ships carrying humanitarian relief and medical supplies for the people of Gaza will set sail for the coastal sliver in the upcoming days.
Iran's Red Crescent announced Monday that the cargo will include food, medicine and appliances and it will be accompanied by a group of Iranian doctors and relief workers.
"The aid consists of food and medical supplies, which will be transported into Gaza via the Rafah border in Egypt before the week is through," the country's Red Crescent Director Abdolraoof Adibzadeh said.
The Rafah border crossing is the only escape route from Gaza that does not lead to Israel.
"Iran is also preparing to dispatch a navy hospital ship for the people of Gaza, which will have onboard doctors, nurses and all the medical equipment required for emergency surgeries and procedures," Adibzadeh further explained.
The decision comes in the wake of a deadly Israeli attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla carrying thousands of tons of aid supplies and hundreds of humanitarian activists to the coastal strip.
Israel's military attack into the Turkish aid vessel M.V. Mavi Marmara resulted in the death of nine activists -- including a Turkish teenager -- and the injury of more then 40 others.
Source: PressTV
Very good initiative, because the people of Gaza needs the aid. The initiative does not become any better or worse because it is Iranian.
Good that Iran decided to land in Egypt. Now that Rafah has been opened indefinitely it is absolutely necessary that the Iranian initiative is implemented to avoid suggestions that the purpose was to put Israel in a bad light (Israel has once more demonstrated that it is perfectly able to do that on it own without any foreign assistance).
Remembering that the Israelis have difficulties seeing themselves as anything but victime they will probably feel very threatened, so Iran please do not provoke these very sensitive people who barely survived the holocaust!
However, between us I would advise you to provide your own protection in the form of a sufficient number of TOR-M1 rockets.