The initiative came on the directives of the President, His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and is followed up by General Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces.
The directives of Shaikh Khalifa followed reports by the Red Crescent Authority’s office in Palestine on severe damage in Jerusalem and other Palestinian cities, villages and camps.
The reports say trees in the Al Aqsa Mosque Plaza were uprooted and Palestinians’ farms and houses were swept by the flash floods.
RCA’s office in Palestine will procure the things from the local market and will deliver them to those afflicted by the torrents.
UAE donates $ 50m
The Public Works & Housing Minister at the government in Gaza Yousif Subhi Al Ghariz said on Thursday that the UAE had donated $ 50 million to build the Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan for the freed prisoners in Gaza strip.
Al Ghariz praised the UAE’s role in supporting Palestinian people and their just cause. He thanked the President, government and people of the UAE for the generous donation.
Food parcels in Al Rawda
The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Humanitarian Foundation (KZHF), under the supervision of the UAE embassy in Sana’a, distributed 10,000 food parcels among the needy families in Al Rawda area of Sana’a, as part of Shaikh Khalifa’s Dh500 million food aid for Yemen poverty-stricken areas.
The Khalifa Foundation in the coming days will complete the distribution of the food baskets, which includes basic foodstuffs among poor Yemeni families in other areas in the province of Sana’a.
The number of beneficiaries from the president’s donation has reached 85,000 families so far.
In the early phases of this drive, the KZHF distributed around 30,000 food parcels among Yemenis in Abyan Governorate, 50,000 food parcels in Hudaida Governorate and 5,000 in Socotra Island.
